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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. | ||
| 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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| MOPKF040 | Effect of Electron-beam Feedbacks on the ELETTRA Storage-ring Free-electron Laser | 393 |
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| As is well known, the stability of a storage-ring free-electron laser is strongly related to that of the electron beam. With respect to second-generation devices, such as Super ACO and UVSOR, the free-electron laser at ELETTRA is characterized by a noticeably higher gain and, consequently, shows to be much more sensitive to electron-beam instabilities. In order to counteract the impact of such instabilities, both a longitudinal multibunch and a local orbit feedbacks have been implemented for free-electron laser operation. Aim of this paper is to report on the beneficial effect of these feedback systems on the laser performance. | ||
| MOPKF041 | SPARC Photoinjector Working Point Optimization, Tolerances and Sensitivity to Errors | 396 |
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| A new optimization of the SPARC photoinjector, aiming to reduce the FEL saturation length, is presented in this paper. Start to end simulations show that with 1.1 nC charge in a 10 ps long bunch we can deliver at the undulator entrance a beam having 100 A in 50% of the slices (each slice being 300 mm long) with a slice emittance £1 mm, thus reducing the FEL-SASE saturation length to 12 m at 500 nm wavelength. In addition the stability of the nominal working point and its sensitivity to various type of random errors, under realistic conditions of the SPARC photoinjector operation, are discussed. A systematic scan of the main parameters around the operating point, performed with PARMELA code interfaced to MATLAB, shows that the probability to get a projected emittance exceeding 1 mm is only 10 % and the slice emittance remains below 1 mm in all cases. | ||
| MOPKF042 | Status of the SPARC Project | 399 |
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| The aim of the SPARC project is to promote an R&D activity oriented to the development of a high brightness photoinjector to drive SASE-FEL experiments at 500 nm and higher harmonics generation. It has been proposed by a collaboration among ENEA-INFN-CNR-Universita‘ di Roma Tor Vergata-INFM-ST and funded by the Italian Government with a 3 year time schedule. The machine will be installed at LNF, inside an existing underground bunker. It is comprised of an rf gun driven by a Ti:Sa laser to produce 10-ps flat top pulses on the photocathode, injecting into three SLAC accelerating sections. We foresee conducting investigations on the emittance correction and on the rf compression techniques up to kA level. The SPARC photoinjector can be used also to investigate beam physics issues like surface-roughness-induced wake fields, bunch-length measurements in the sub-ps range, emittance degradation in magnetic compressors due to CSR. We present in this paper the status of the design activities of the injector and of the undulator. The first test on diagnostic prototypes and the first experimental achievements of the flat top laser pulse production are also discussed. | ||
| THPLT054 | Emittance Diluition due to 3D Perturbations in RF Photoinjectors. | 2604 |
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| The predictions from different simulation codes are compared to investigate the effects of non axis-symmetric conditions, fluctuations in cathode's quantum efficiency and other sources of dishomogeneities in the performances of a typical RF photoinjector. The layout includes a RF gun and a focusing solenoid in a configuration aimed at minimizing the emittance growth due to space charge effects. | ||
| THPLT059 | Design Study of a Movable Emittance Meter Device for the SPARC Photoinjector | 2619 |
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| Preliminary studies of the SPARC rf gun are planned to obtain an accurate analysis and optimization of the emittance compensation scheme, measuring the beam emittance evolution downstream the RF gun with an appropriate diagnostic system. Since with a space charge dominated beam the use of the quad-scan method is not possible a 1D pepper-pot method will be used. A mask with narrow slits will be mounted on a movable support, spanning a 1.5 m meters region to measure the emittance in several positions and reconstruct its behavior in the post gun section. Numerical simulations of the measurement process, mainly based on PARMELA and TREDI, are used to estimate the achievable accuracy and to optimize the experimental setup. Wake field effects induced by the beam propagation through the long bellows have been also investigated with HOMDYN. Based on these simulations the design of the apparatus, called emittance-meter, has been realized and is under construction at LNF. |