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Towards Attosecond X-ray Pulses from the FEL
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- A. Zholents, J.M. Byrd, W. Fawley, Z. Hao, M.C. Martin, D. Robin, F. Sannibale, R.W. Schoenlein, M. Venturini, M.S. Zolotorev
LBNL, Berkeley, California
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The ability to study ultrafast phenomena has been recently advanced by the demonstrated production and measurement of a single, 650-attosecond, soft x-ray pulses precisely synchronized to the pump laser pulse consisted of just few optical cycles. The next frontier is a production of attosecond x-ray pulses at even shorter wavelengths. Here we propose the method of ?seeded attosecond x-ray radiation? where an isolated, attosecond duration, short-wavelength x-ray pulse is radiated by electrons selected by their previous interaction with a few-cycle, intense laser pulse. In principle this method allows excellent synchronization between the attosecond x-ray probe pulse and a pump source that can be the same few-cycle laser pulse or another signal derived from it.
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CIRCE, the Coherent InfraRed CEnter at the ALS
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- J.M. Byrd, S. De Santis, J.-Y. Jung, M.C. Martin, W.R. McKinney, D.V. Munson, H. Nishimura, D. Robin, F. Sannibale, R.D. Schlueter, M. Venturini, W. Wan, M.S. Zolotorev
LBNL, Berkeley, California
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CIRCE (Coherent InfraRed Center) is a new electron storage ring to be built at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The ring design is optimized for the generation of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in the terahertz frequency range. CIRCE operation includes three possible modes: ultra stable CSR, femtosecond laser slicing CSR and broadband SASE. CSR will allow CIRCE to produce an extremely high flux in the terahertz frequency region. The many orders of magnitude increase in the intensity is the basis of our project and enables new kinds of science. The characteristics of CIRCE and of the different modes of operation are described in this paper.
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Coherent Infrared Radiation from the ALS Generated via Femtosecond Laser Modulation of the Electron Beam
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- A. Zholents, J.M. Byrd, Z. Hao, M.C. Martin, D. Robin, F. Sannibale, R.W. Schoenlein, M. Venturini, M.S. Zolotorev
LBNL, Berkeley, California
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Interaction of an electron beam with a femtosecond laser pulse co-propagating through a wiggler at the ALS produces significant modulation of the electron energies within a short ~100 fs slice of the electron bunch. Subsequent propagation of the energy-modulated bunch around the storage ring results in an appearance of a local temporal modulation of the electron density (micro-bunching) due to the dispersion of electron trajectories. The temporal width of this perturbation evolves as the electron bunch propagates around the ring. The shortest modulation, ~50 microns, appears in the ALS sector immediately following the wiggler magnet, and stretches to ~ 500 microns following propagation over 2/3 of a storage ring orbit. The modulated electron bunch emits single-cycle pulses of temporally and spatially coherent infrared light which are automatically synchronized to the laser pulses. The intensity and spectra of the infrared light were measured in two locations in the ring indicated above and were found to be in good agreement with analytical calculations. Ultra-short pulses of coherent infrared radiation are presently used for a fine tuning the laser ? electron beam interaction for generating femtosecond x-ray pulses.
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