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Wittmer, W.

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RPAE082 The New Undulator Based fs-Slicing Beamline at the ALS 4096
 
  • C. Steier, D. Robin, F. Sannibale, R.W. Schoenlein, W. Wan, W. Wittmer, A. Zholents
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.

The existing Femtoslicing beamline at the ALS employs a femtosecond laser beam interacting resonantly with the electron beam in a wiggler (modulator). The induced energy spread over the femtosecond duration is converted to a transverse displacement by exploiting the storage ring dispersion. The displaced femtosecond pulse radiates and produces femtosecond synchrotron radiation. Up to now a regular bending magnet was used as radiator. To improve the flux, a significant upgrade was implemented, replacing the modulator, installing an in-vacuum undulator as new radiator, and installing a higher repeptition rate laser system. The new beamline will provide 100-200 fs long pulses of soft and hard x-rays with moderate flux and with a repetion rate of 10-40 kHz for experiments concerning ultrafast dynamics in solid state physics, chemistry and biology. To achieve the necessary spatial separation of the energy modulated slice from the rest of the bunch, a sizeable local vertical dispersion bump in the radiator is required. All accelerator physics aspects of the upgrade including challenging issues like the impact on the transverse single particle dynamics will be discussed together with initial results of the commissioning.

 
RPAE065 Generation of Picosecond X-Ray Pulses in the ALS Using RF Orbit Deflection 3659
 
  • D. Robin, J.M. Byrd, P. Fischer, P.A. Heimann, D.H. Kim, S. Kwiatkowski, D. Li, F. Sannibale, C. Steier, W. Wan, W. Wittmer, A. Zholents
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  
  Funding: This work was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.

A scheme is studied for producing ps length pulses of x-ray radiation from the Advanced Light Source (ALS) using two RF deflecting cavities. The cavities create vertical displacements of electrons correlated with their longitudinal position in the bunch. The two cavities separated by 180 degrees of vertical phase advance. This allows the vertical kick from one cavity to be compensated by the vertical kick of the other. The location of the cavities corresponds to the end of one straight section and the beginning of the following straight section. Halfway between the cavities a bending magnet source is located. The radiation from the bend can be compressed to ~1 ps in duration.