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TY - CONF AU - Emma, C. AU - Guetg, M.W. AU - Lutman, A.A. AU - Marinelli, A. AU - Pellegrini, C. AU - Wu, J. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Power, Maria ED - Shiltsev, Vladimir ED - White, Marion TI - Demonstration of fresh slice self seeding in a hard X-ray free electron laser J2 - Proc. of NAPAC2016, Chicago, IL, USA, October 9-14, 2016 C1 - Chicago, IL, USA T2 - North American Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 3 LA - english AB - We discuss the first demonstration of fresh slice self seeding (FSSS) in a hard X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). The FSSS method utilizes a single electron beam to generate a strong seed pulse and amplify it with a small energy spread electron slice. This extends the capability of self seeded XFELs by producing short pulses, not limited by the duration set by the self-seeding monochromator system, with high peak intensity. The scheme relies on using a parallel plate dechirper to impart a spatial chirp on the beam, and appropriate orbit control to lase with different electron beam slices before and after the self-seeding monochromator. The performance of the FSSS method is analyzed with start-to-end simulations for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The simulations include the effect of the parallel plate dechirper and propagation of the radiation field through the monochromator. We also present results of the first successful demonstration of FSSS at LCLS. The radiation properties of FSSS X-ray pulses are compared with the Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (SASE) mode of FEL operation for the same electron beam parameters. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 450 EP - 452 KW - ion KW - electron KW - experiment KW - simulation KW - FEL DA - 2017/01 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-180-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUB3CO03 UR - https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tub3co03.pdf ER -