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| WEPAB037 | Two-Bunch Operation at the FERMI FEL Facility | 2663 |
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| FERMI is a linac-driven free electron laser (FEL) based upon the High Gain Harmonic Generation (HGHG) scheme. In standard conditions a bunch of 700 pC of charge with sub mm-mrad emittances is accelerated to 1.2-1.5GeV in a normal conducting S-band linac and drives FEL-1 or FEL-2 undula-tor line, which lase respectively in the range 100-20nm or 20-4nm. A number of two-color schemes have been implemented at FERMI for pump/probe experiments, all consisting in making two portions of the same electron bunch lase at two different wavelengths, with a time-separation from 0 to few hundreds of fs. In order to increase the time separation to ns and tens of ns we have explored the acceleration of two inde-pendent electron bunches separated by multiple of the linac main radio-frequency period, i.e. 333ps. Measure-ments and characterization of this two-bunch mode oper-ation are presented, including trajectory control, impact of longitudinal and transverse wakefields on the trailing bunch and manipulation of the longitudinal phase space. | ||
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| WEPAB039 | Development Perspectives at FERMI | 2666 |
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| FERMI is the seeded Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facility at the Elettra laboratory in Trieste, operating in the ultraviolet to soft X-rays spectral range; the radiation produced by the seeded FEL is characterized by a number of desirable properties, such as wavelength stability, low temporal jitter and longitudinal coherence. In this paper, after an overview of the FEL performances, we will present the development plans under consideration for the next 3 to 5 years. These include an upgrade of the linac and of the existing FEL lines, the possibility to perform multipulse experiments in different configurations and an Echo Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) experiment on FEL-2, the FEL line extending to 4 nm (310 eV). | ||
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| THYA1 | New Scenarios of Microbunching Instability Control in Electron Linacs and Free Electron Lasers | 3642 |
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Laser-heater systems are essential tools to control and optimize high-gain free-electron lasers (FELs) working in the x-ray wavelength range. Indeed, these systems induce a controllable increase of the energy spread of the electron bunch. The heating suppresses longitudinal microbunching instability which otherwise would limit the FEL performance. We demonstrate that, through the action of the microbunching instability, a long-wavelength modulation of the electron beam induced by the laser heater at low energy can persist until the beam entrance into the undulators. This coherent longitudinal modulation is exploited to control the FEL spectral properties, in particular, multicolor extreme-ultraviolet FEL pulses can be generated through a frequency mixing of the modulations produced by the laser heater and the seed laser in the electron beam. We present an experimental demonstration of this novel configuration carried out at the FERMI FEL.
*E. Roussel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214801 (2015) |
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