Author: Duris, J.P.
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TUPAB137 Evaluation of FEL Performance with a Longer Injector Drive Laser Pulse at the LCLS 1651
 
  • F. Zhou, Y. Ding, J.P. Duris, S. Gilevich, P. Hering, S. Vetter
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: US DOE under grant No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.
It is known that the X-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL) performance strongly depends on the beam emittance and peak current. Lengthening injector laser pulse can improve the injector emittance but the injector peak current is notably compromised, in comparison to nominal laser pulse. With this longer laser pulse, a stronger bunch compression through downstream bunch compressors is thus required to keep same final peak current as the nominal laser pulse mode. This process may cause stronger micro-bunching effect. At the LCLS, we perform preliminary experiments with doubling injector laser pulse. In this paper, we present the experimental results of the injector emittance, microbunching effects and FEL performance with the longer drive laser pulse.
 
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WEPAB118 High Power Sub-Femtosecond X-Ray Pulse Study for the LCLS 2848
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  • J.P. MacArthur
    Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  • J.P. Duris, Z. Huang, A. Marinelli
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  The desire to resolve sub-femtosecond electron dynamics has pushed FEL facilities to shorter pulse lengths. However, current short-pulse schemes provide low pulse energy and a gain-length limited lower bound on the pulse duration. The X-ray Laser-Enhanced Attosecond Pulses (XLEAP) project at SLAC is designed implement an Enhanced Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ESASE) scheme, which produces sub-fs current spikes by modulating and compressing the electron beam. We show through a series of Genesis simulations that the current spike is capable of producing sub-fs pulses with a peak power well above 100 GW. Space-charge induced beam chirp can decrease pulse lengths below 400 as, and multi-stage schemes can increase peak x-ray powers to around 1 TW.  
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