• C. Evain, M.-E. Couprie, J.-M. Filhol, M. Labat, A. Nadji
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
• A. Zholents
  ANL, Argonne

SOLEIL is presently installing a laser bunch slicing set-up to produce ultra-short X-ray pulses. We propose a method to generate coherent synchrotron radiation at high harmonics in a storage ring using an echo scheme. Like in the method proposed recently for free electron lasers, the echo scheme uses two modulators and two dispersive sections. We show that this can be done at the synchrotron SOLEIL by adapting the classical slicing scheme. In the present study at SOLEIL, the two laser/electrons interactions are planned to occur in two out of vacuum wigglers of period 150 mm, and the high harmonic radiation will be emitted in an APPLE-II type undulator with a period of 44mm or 80 mm in the beamline TEMPO or with a period of 52 mm in the beamline DEIMOS.

• A. Nadji, F. Briquez, M.-E. Couprie, J.-C. Denard, J.-M. Filhol, C. Herbeaux, Ph. Hollander, M. Labat, J.-F. Lamarre, C. Laulhe, V. Leroux, O. Marcouillé, J.L. Marlats, T. Moreno, P. Morin, P. Prigent, S. Ravy, F. Sirotti
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
• J. Luning
  UPMC, Paris
• M. Meyer
  LIXAM, Orsay

An electron bunch slicing set-up is being installed on the SOLEIL storage ring, based on Zholents and Zolotorev method [1]. This will provide 100 fs long X-ray pulses with reasonable flux to two existing beamlines, working with soft X-rays (TEMPO) and hard X-rays (CRISTAL). The parameters of the laser system and of the wiggler modulator, and the optimisation of the laser focusing optics and beam path, from the laser hutch in the experimental hall to the inside of the storage ring tunnel have been finalised. The construction work will start early 2010, including the ordering of the laser, the construction of the laser hutch, the construction of the wiggler, the installation of a new modified vacuum dipole chamber by which the laser will enter into the ring, and the modifications of some components in the beamlines front-ends to provide the best possible separation of the sliced X-Ray. In this paper, we will report on the status of the installation of the set-up and the expected performances including laser-electron interaction efficiency, halo background effect and the possible operation filling patterns.