• R. Kuroda
  AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
• H. Hayano, J.U. Urakawa
  KEK, Ibaraki
• K. Hidume, M. Kawaguchi, S. Minamiguchi, R. Moriyama, T. Saito, K. Sakaue, M. Washio
  RISE, Tokyo
• S. Kashiwagi
  ISIR, Osaka

Funding: This research was partially supported by a High Tech Research Project of MECSST 707, a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 16340079, a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 16760049.

A compact soft X-ray source is required in various research fields such as material and biological science. The laser undulator based on Compton backward scattering has been developed as a compact soft X-ray source for the biological observation at Waseda University. It is performed in a water window region (250eV - 500 eV) using the interaction between 1047 nm Nd:YLF laser (10ps FWHM) and about 5 MeV high quality electron beam (10ps FWHM) generated from rf gun system. The range of X-ray energy in the water window region has K-shell absorption edges of Oxygen, Carbon and Nitrogen, which mainly constitute of living body. Since the absorption coefficient of water is much smaller than the protein's coefficient in this range, a dehydration of the specimens is not necessary. To generate the soft X-ray pulse stably, the electron beam diagnostics have been developed such as the emittance measurement using double slit scan technique, the bunch length measurement using two frequency analysis technique. In this conference, we will report results of beam beamdiagnostics experiments, soft X-ray generation and our future plan.