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| MOPKF030 | "ARC-EN-CIEL" a Proposal for a 4th Generation Light Source in France | 366 |
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| An accelerator based 4th generation source is proposed to provide the user community with coherent femtosecond light pulses in the UV to X ray range. The project is based on a CW 700 MeV superconducting linac delivering high charge, subpicosecond, low emittance electron bunches with high repetition rate. This facility allows for testing High Gain Harmonic Generation seeded with high harmonics in gases, as well as the standard SASE mode, covering a spectral range down to 0.8 nm and 5 nm respectively. In addition, two beam loops are foreseen to increase the beam current in using the energy recovery technique. They will accommodate undulators for the production of femtosecond synchrotron radiation in the IR, VUV and X ray ranges together with a FEL oscillator in the 10 nm range. | ||
| MOPKF035 | Stabilization of the Pulsed Regimes on Storage Ring Free Electron Laser: The Cases of Super-ACO and Elettra | 381 |
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In a Storage Ring Free Electron Laser (SRFEL) a relativistic electron beam interacts with the magnetostatic periodic field of an undulator, thus emitting synchrotron radiation. The light is stored in an optical cavity and amplified during successive turns of the particles in the ring. The laser intensity may appear as a "continuous wave (cw)" or show a stable pulsed behaviour depending on the value of the temporal detuning, i.e. the difference between the electron beam revolution period and the round trip of the photons in the cavity. It was recently shown, that the loss of stability in a SRFEL occurs through an Hopf bifurcation [*]. This observation opens up the perspective of introducing a derivative self-controlled feedback to suppress locally the bifurcation and enlarge the region of stable signal. A feedback of this type has been implemented on Super-ACO and shown to produce a significant and reproducible extension of the stable "cw" region. We review here these results and discuss new experiments performed on the Super-ACO and ELETTRA SRFELs.
* G. De Ninno and D. Fanelli, Phys. Rev. Lett. in press; M.E. Couprie et al. Nucl. Instrum.and Meth. A., in press |
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| MOPKF029 | Seeding High Gain Harmonic Generation with Laser Harmonics produced in Gases | 363 |
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| Free electron lasers employing High Gain Harmonic Generation (HGHG) schemes are very promising coherent light sources for the soft X-ray regime. They offer both transverse and longitudinal coherence, inversely to Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission schemes, where the longitudinal coherence is limited. We propose here to seed HGHG with high harmonics produced by a Ti:Sa femtosecond laser focused on a gas jet, tuneable in the 100-10 nm spectral region. Specifities concerning the implementation of this particular laser source as a seed for HGHG are investigated. Theoretical ad numerical calculations (using PERSEO in particular) are given, for the cases of the SCSS and ARC-EN-CIEL projects. |