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TY - CONF AU - Li, C. AU - Akcaalan, O. AU - Frede, M. AU - Grosse-Wortmann, U. AU - Hartl, I. AU - Mohr, C. AU - Puncken, O. AU - Seidel, M. AU - Tuennermann, H. AU - Vidoli, C. AU - Winkelmann, L. ED - Liu, Lin ED - Byrd, John M. ED - Neuenschwander, Regis T. ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Schaa, Volker R. W. TI - Photocathode Laser Development for Superconducting X-Ray Free Electron Lasers at DESY J2 - Proc. of IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 24-28 May 2021 CY - Campinas, SP, Brazil T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 12 LA - english AB - Modern X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFEL) are a key tool to enable a variety of scientific research. Those large-scale machines rely on robust and reliable deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser sources to drive electrons from their RF photocathode gun. In this paper we present a new photocathode laser prototype, which offers more flexibility in duration and shape of the 257.5 nm pulses for driving the CsTe Photocathodes of DESY’s superconducting burst-mode FELs. The laser matches the FEL pulse structure, which are 800 µs bursts at up to 4.5 MHz intraburst-rate with 10 Hz burst-repetition-rate. In a first version the system will offer variable DUV pulse durations, tunable from 1 ps to 20 ps to address different operational regimes of the XFEL. The laser system comprises a high-resolution spectral shaper with the option of generating flat-top DUV pulses for reducing electron-beam emittance at a later version. The laser is constructed in a hybrid Yb:fiber and Yb:YAG architecture. Our prototype delivers 180 uJ pulse energy at 1030 nm and 1 MHz intra-burst rate and we demonstrated conversion of 50µJ of the NIR beam to DUV, resulting 11.5µJ at 21ps (FWHM) and 6.15 µJ at 1.05 ps (FWHM) pulse duration. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 3599 EP - 3601 KW - laser KW - FEL KW - operation KW - cathode KW - electron DA - 2021/08 PY - 2021 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-214-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB379 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/wepab379.pdf ER -