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With the successful SASE FEL saturation at 80 nm wavelength at TTF1, TTF2 will begin re-commissioning in the fall of 2004 as an FEL user facility to 6 nm with 1 GeV beams. The high gain harmonic generation is also confirmed by the DUV-FEL experiments at 266 nm with seeding wavelength at 800 nm. In order to realize a hard X-ray SASE FEL (SASE XFEL) with a lower energy beams, we need a long in-vacuum mini-gap undulator and a GeV-scale FEL driving linac that can supply an extremely low slice emittance, a high peak current, and an extremely low slice energy spread. PAL is operating a 2.5 GeV electron linac as a full-energy injector to the PLS storage ring. By adding an RF photo-cathode gun, two bunch compressors, and a 0.5 GeV S-band injector linac to the existing PLS linac, and by installing a 60 m long in-vacuum undulator, the PLS linac can be converted to a SASE XFEL facility (PAL XFEL) which supplies coherent X-ray down to 0.3 nm wavelength. The third harmonic enhancement technique can supply coherent hard X-ray beams to 0.1 nm. The technical parameters related to these goals are examined, and preliminary design details are reviewed for the PAL linac upgrade idea for a 1-3 Å PAL XFEL.
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