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| MOPKF008 | The BESSY Soft X-ray FEL User Facility | 312 |
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| A FEL User Facility for the VUV to soft X-ray spectral range is planned at the BESSY site based on a cascaded HGHG-FEL scheme. Simultaneous operation of 3 - later 5 - FELs fed by a superconducting 2.3 GeV CW linac generates most flexible pulse structures for experiments, while the seeding scheme utilizing Ti:Sa fs-lasers results in ultrashort reproducible circular polarized FEL pulses on a shot to shot basis at a pulse-duration < 20 fs. Peak brilliances in the 1·1031 ph/(s mm2 mrad2 0.1% bw)-regime are feasible. All necessary hardware for the FEL is within existing technology. Future upgrade options, e.g. a superconducting photoinjector, seeding with short wavelength HHG lasers of about 1 fs pulse duration have been considered. A status on the design aspects is given. | ||
| MOPKF027 | Optimizing the PITZ Electron Source for the VUV-FEL | 360 |
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| The goal of the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY Zeuthen (PITZ) is to test and optimize electron sources for Free Electron Lasers and future linear colliders. At the end of 2003 the first stage of PITZ (PITZ1) has been successfully completed, resulting in the installation of the PITZ RF gun at the Vacuum Ultra Violet - Free Electron Laser (VUV-FEL) at DESY Hamburg. The main results achieved during the PITZ1 extensive measurement program are discussed in this paper. A minimum normalized beam emittance of about 1.5 pi mm mrad for 1 nC electron bunch charge has been reached by optimizing numerous photo injector parameters, e.g. longitudinal and transverse profiles of the photocathode laser, RF phase, main and bucking solenoid current. The second stage of PITZ (PITZ2), being a large extension of the facility and its research program, has started now. Recent progress on the PITZ2 developments will be reported as well. | ||
| THPKF016 | The Metrology Light Source of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin-Adlershof | 2290 |
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| PTB, the German National Metrology Institute, has gained approval for the construction of a low-energy electron storage ring in the close vicinity of BESSY II, where PTB operates a laboratory for X-ray radiometry. The new storage ring, named 'Metrology Light Source MLS' will be dedicated to metrology and technology development in the UV and EUV spectral range and so will fill the gap that is present since the shut down of BESSY I. The MLS is designed in close cooperation with BESSY and is located adjacent to the BESSY II facility. Construction will start 2004 and user operation is scheduled to begin in 2008. The MLS has a circumference of 48 m, injection will be from a 100 MeV microtron. The electrons energy is ramped to an eligible value in the range from 200 MeV to 600 MeV. The MLS will be equipped with all the instrumentation necessary to measure the storage ring parameters needed for the calculation of the spectral photon flux according to the Schwinger theory with low uncertainty, enabling PTB to operate the MLS as a primary source standard. Moreover, provision is taken to operated the MLS in a low alpha mode for the production of coherent synchrotron radiation in the far IR and THz region. | ||
| THPKF014 | Status of the BESSY II Femtosecond X-ray Source | 2284 |
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At the BESSY II storage ring, work is in progress to produce X-ray pulses with 50 fs (fwhm) duration and tunable energy and polarization by "femtoslicing" [*].This work includes extensive alterations to the storage ring (one new and one modified undulator, both in the same straight section, three additional dipole magnets, a new IR beamline, and nine meters of new vacuum vessels) and to two beamlines (relocation and new optical designs), as well as the installation of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser system. Commissioning is planned for May 2004. This paper reviews the principles and technical implementation of the new femtosecond X-ray source, and reports the status of the project.
* A. Zholentz, M. Zoloterev, Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996), 912 |