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MOP034	Beam Optics Measurements at FERMI by using Wire-Scanner	emittance, linac, quadrupole, FEL	101
	G. Penco, A. Abrami, I. Cudin, S. Di Mitri, M. Ferianis, E. Ferrari, G. Gaio, L. Giannessi, S. Grulja, R. Sauro, L. Sturari Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy E. Ferrari Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy L. Giannessi ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy G.L. Orlandi, C. Ozkan Loch PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	Measuring and controlling the electron beam optics is an important ingredient to guarantee high performance of a free-electron laser. In the FERMI linac, the Twiss parameters and the transverse emittances are routinely measured by detecting the beam spot size as a function of a scanning quadrupole placed upstream (i.e. quadrupole scan method). The beam spot size is usually measured with an OTR screen that unfortunately suffers from coherent optical transition radiation (C-OTR) that introduces spurious light and corrupts the image. Moreover, the beam size at the end of the FERMI linac is focused to a few tens of microns and this makes it difficult to precisely measure it with the OTR system, which has an estimated resolution of 20um. For this reason, a wire-scanner system has been installed at the end of the linac just in the waist of the optics channel. The wire-scanner is a SwissFEL prototype installed in FERMI in order to study the hardware and beam loss monitor performances at the GeV energy scale. The beam optics measurements performed with the wire-scanner is here presented, and the obtained results are more in agreement with the theoretical expectations. A more reliable beam optics estimation at the end of the linac has allowed to better match it to the nominal lattice and transport it up to the undulator chain, providing important benefits to the FEL performance.
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MOP042	All-Fiber Approach to Long-Term Stable Timing Distribution System	timing, laser, polarization, coupling	122
	M. Xin, K. Safak, F.X. Kaernter DESY, Hamburg, Germany P.T. Callahan, M.Y. Peng MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
	High precision timing distribution systems are critical for free-electron lasers (FELs). Real facilities such as FLASH and the European XFEL need fiber networks consisting of 20 or more timing links, which require tremendous attention to the alignment and stability of the free-space optics to minimize timing-drifts induced by beam pointing instabilities. This situation also necessitates preamplification of the master laser output to overcome excessive free-space to fiber coupling losses to provide adequate power for all timing links. Recently, we have developed integrated, fiber-coupled balanced optical cross-correlators (FC-BOC) using periodically-poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) waveguides. These waveguides exhibit second harmonic conversion efficiencies 20 times higher than the bulk optical devices, which will decrease the power demand from the master laser and consequently support more timing links. Furthermore, the robustness and ease of implementation of these fiber-coupled devices will eliminate alignment-related problems observed in free-space optics. In this paper, we present an all-fiber implementation of a 3.5-km timing distribution system using FC-BOCs, over 200 hours operation without interruption. The remaining drift (<1 Hz) is only 3.3 fs RMS, and the integrated jitter above 1 Hz is kept below 0.7 fs, which is more than sufficient for an efficient FEL synchronization.
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MOP056	Reversible Electron Beam Heater without Transverse Deflecting Cavities	emittance, electron, cavity, synchrotron	166
	G. Stupakov, P. Emma SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This work was supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. Suppression of microbunching instability in modern FELs is an important issue that often limits the performance of the machine. A technique to suppress the instability with the help of a reversible electron beam heater was proposed by C. Behrens, Z. Huang, and D. Xiang []. It employs transverse deflecting cavities synchronized in a way that one of the cavities, located before a bunch compressor, generates a slice energy spread, while the other one removes it after the beam passes through the bunch compressor. Being an attractive approach, this concept unfortunately imposes extremely tight tolerances on the synchronization of the cavities. In this paper we demonstrate that a reversible heater equivalent to that of Behrens et al. can be designed using much simpler elements: bend magnets and quadrupoles in combination with the energy chirp of the beam. C. Behrens, Z. Huang, and D. Xiang, PRST-AB 15, 022802 (2012).
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MOP067	Transverse Emittance-Preserving Transfer Line and Arc Compressor for High Brightness Electron Sources	emittance, dipole, electron, FEL	191
	S. Di Mitri, M. Cornacchia, S. Spampinati Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy S. Spampinati Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Minimizing transverse emittance is essential in single- or few-passes accelerators designed to deliver high brightness electron beams. Emission of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is an important factor of emittance degradation. We have demonstrated, with analytical and experimental results, that this perturbation may be cancelled by imposing certain conditions on the electron optics when the bunch length is constant along the line. This scheme of CSR suppression is then enlarged, analytically and numerically, to cover the case of varying bunch length in a periodic arc compressor. The proposed solution hold the promise of cost-saving of compact transfer lines with large bending angles, and new schemes for beam longitudinal gymnastics both in recirculating and in single-pass accelerators driving free electron lasers. S. Di Mitri, M. Cornacchia, S. Spampinati, Phys. Rev. Letters, 110, 014801 (2013) ** S. Di Mitri, M. Cornacchia, Europhys. Letters, 109, 62002 (2015)
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MOP086	Novel Opportunities for Sub-meV Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Experiments at High-Repetition Rate Self-seeded XFELs	undulator, radiation, photon, scattering	257
	O.V. Chubar BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA G. Geloni, A. Madsen XFEL. EU, Hamburg, Germany V. Kocharyan, E. Saldin, S. Serkez DESY, Hamburg, Germany Yu. Shvyd'ko ANL, Argonne, Ilinois, USA J. Sutter DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	Inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) is an important tool for studies of equilibrium dynamics in condensed matter. A new spectrometer recently proposed for ultra-high-resolution IXS (UHRIX) has achieved 0.6 meV and 0.25/nm spectral and momentum Transfer resolutions, respectively. However, further improvements down to 0.1 meV and 0.02/nm are required to close the gap in energy-momentum space between high and low frequency probes. We Show that this goal can be achieved by further improvements in x-ray optics and by increasing the spectral flux of the incident x-ray pulses. UHRIX performs best at energies from 5 to 10 keV, where a combination of self-seeding and undulator tapering at the SASE2 beamline of the European XFEL promises up to a hundred-fold increase in average spectral flux compared to nominal SASE pulses at saturation, or three orders of magnitude more than possible with storage-ring based radiation sources. Wave-optics propagation shows that about 7·10¹² ph/s in a 90-microeV bandwidth can be achieved on the sample. This will provide unique new possibilities for IXS. Extended information about our work can be found in. Y. Shvyd'ko et al., Nature Communications 5:4219 (2014). ** O. Chubar et al., ‘Novel opportunities for sub-meV inelastic X-ray scattering at high-repetition rate self-seeded X-ray free-electron lasers', http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02632, DESY 15-140, (2015).
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MOP087	Multistage CSR Microbunching Gain Development in Transport or Recirculation Arcs	lattice, dipole, damping, bunching	263
	C.-Y. Tsai Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA D. Douglas, R. Li, C. Tennant JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
	Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177. Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) induced microbunching instability has been one of the most challenging issues in the design of modern accelerators. A linear Vlasov solver has been developed [1] and applied to investigate the physical processes of microbunching gain amplification for several example lattices [2]. In this paper, by further extending the concept of stage gain as proposed by Huang and Kim [3], we develop a method to characterize the microbunching development in terms of stage orders that allow the quantitative comparison of optics impacts on microbunching gain for different lattices. We find that the microbunching instability in our demonstrated arcs has a distinguishing feature of multistage amplification (e.g, up to 6th stage amplification for our example transport arcs, in contrast to two-stage amplification for a typical 4-dipole bunch compressor chicane). We also try to connect lattice optics pattern with the obtained stage gain functions by a physical interpretation. This Vlasov analysis is validated by ELEGANT [4] tracking results with excellent agreement. [1] C. -Y. Tsai et al., MOP052, these proceedings [2] See, for example, C. -Y. Tsai et al., ERL2015 (TUICLH2034) [3] Z. Huang and K. -J. Kim, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 5, 074401 (2002) [4] M. Borland, APS Light Source Note LS-287 (2000)
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TUP066	Benchmark of ELEGANT and IMPACT	space-charge, wakefield, linac, undulator	505
	L. Wang, P. Emma, T.O. Raubenheimer SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA J. Qiang LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	The beam dynamics codes ELEGANT and IMAPCT have many users. We use these two codes for the design of LCLSII. Both codes use a 1D model for the coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in bend magnets. In addition, IMPACT has a 3D space-charge model, while ELEGANT uses a 1D model. To compare the two codes, especially the space-charge effects, we systematically benchmark the two codes with different physics aspects: wakefields, CSR and space-charge forces.
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TUP068	Electron Beam Phase Space Tomographie at the European XFEL Injector	electron, emittance, quadrupole, betatron	515
	M. Scholz, B. Beutner DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	Transverse emittances as well as the energy spread and the peak current of the electron bunches are important parameters for high-gain free electron lasers such as the European XFEL. Investigations of the 6D phase space characterisation would give important indications to optimise the beam quality for SASE operation. The injector of the European XFEL includes, inter alia, a laser heater, a transverse deflecting cavity, a spectrometer, a diagnostic section with four OTR screens as well as several quadrupole magnets. In this paper, we will discuss the possibilities to characterise the 6D phase space of the electron beam in the injector of the Eurpean XFEL.
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WEP047	Femtosecond Timing Distribution at the European XFEL	laser, timing, FEL, electron	669
	C. Sydlo, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Felber, C. Gerth, J.M. Müller, H. Schlarb, F. Zummack DESY, Hamburg, Germany S. Jabłoński Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
	Accurate timing synchronization on the femtosecond timescale is an essential installation for time-resolved experiments at free-electron lasers (FELs) such as FLASH and the upcoming European XFEL. To date the required precision levels can only be achieved by a laser-based synchronization system. Such a system has been successfully deployed at FLASH and is based on the distribution of femtosecond laser pulses over actively stabilized optical fibers. For time-resolved experiments and for special diagnostics it is crucial to synchronize various laser systems to the electron beam with a long-term stability of better than 10 fs. The upcoming European XFEL has raised the demands due to its large number of stabilized optical fibers and a length of 3400 m. Specifically the increased lengths for the stabilized fibers had necessitated major advancement in precision to achieve the requirement of less than 10 fs precision. This extensive rework of the active fiber stabilization has led to a system exceeding the current existing requirements and is even prepared for increasing demands in the future. This paper reports on the laser-based synchronization system focusing on the active fiber stabilization for the European XFEL, discusses major complications, their solutions and the most recent performance results.
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MOP034

Beam Optics Measurements at FERMI by using Wire-Scanner

emittance, linac, quadrupole, FEL

101

G. Penco, A. Abrami, I. Cudin, S. Di Mitri, M. Ferianis, E. Ferrari, G. Gaio, L. Giannessi, S. Grulja, R. Sauro, L. Sturari
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
E. Ferrari
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
L. Giannessi
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma), Italy
G.L. Orlandi, C. Ozkan Loch
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Measuring and controlling the electron beam optics is an important ingredient to guarantee high performance of a free-electron laser. In the FERMI linac, the Twiss parameters and the transverse emittances are routinely measured by detecting the beam spot size as a function of a scanning quadrupole placed upstream (i.e. quadrupole scan method). The beam spot size is usually measured with an OTR screen that unfortunately suffers from coherent optical transition radiation (C-OTR) that introduces spurious light and corrupts the image. Moreover, the beam size at the end of the FERMI linac is focused to a few tens of microns and this makes it difficult to precisely measure it with the OTR system, which has an estimated resolution of 20um. For this reason, a wire-scanner system has been installed at the end of the linac just in the waist of the optics channel. The wire-scanner is a SwissFEL prototype installed in FERMI in order to study the hardware and beam loss monitor performances at the GeV energy scale. The beam optics measurements performed with the wire-scanner is here presented, and the obtained results are more in agreement with the theoretical expectations. A more reliable beam optics estimation at the end of the linac has allowed to better match it to the nominal lattice and transport it up to the undulator chain, providing important benefits to the FEL performance.

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MOP042

All-Fiber Approach to Long-Term Stable Timing Distribution System

timing, laser, polarization, coupling

122

M. Xin, K. Safak, F.X. Kaernter
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
P.T. Callahan, M.Y. Peng
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

High precision timing distribution systems are critical for free-electron lasers (FELs). Real facilities such as FLASH and the European XFEL need fiber networks consisting of 20 or more timing links, which require tremendous attention to the alignment and stability of the free-space optics to minimize timing-drifts induced by beam pointing instabilities. This situation also necessitates preamplification of the master laser output to overcome excessive free-space to fiber coupling losses to provide adequate power for all timing links. Recently, we have developed integrated, fiber-coupled balanced optical cross-correlators (FC-BOC) using periodically-poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) waveguides. These waveguides exhibit second harmonic conversion efficiencies 20 times higher than the bulk optical devices, which will decrease the power demand from the master laser and consequently support more timing links. Furthermore, the robustness and ease of implementation of these fiber-coupled devices will eliminate alignment-related problems observed in free-space optics. In this paper, we present an all-fiber implementation of a 3.5-km timing distribution system using FC-BOCs, over 200 hours operation without interruption. The remaining drift (<1 Hz) is only 3.3 fs RMS, and the integrated jitter above 1 Hz is kept below 0.7 fs, which is more than sufficient for an efficient FEL synchronization.

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MOP056

Reversible Electron Beam Heater without Transverse Deflecting Cavities

emittance, electron, cavity, synchrotron

166

G. Stupakov, P. Emma
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This work was supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515.
Suppression of microbunching instability in modern FELs is an important issue that often limits the performance of the machine. A technique to suppress the instability with the help of a reversible electron beam heater was proposed by C. Behrens, Z. Huang, and D. Xiang [*]. It employs transverse deflecting cavities synchronized in a way that one of the cavities, located before a bunch compressor, generates a slice energy spread, while the other one removes it after the beam passes through the bunch compressor. Being an attractive approach, this concept unfortunately imposes extremely tight tolerances on the synchronization of the cavities. In this paper we demonstrate that a reversible heater equivalent to that of Behrens et al. can be designed using much simpler elements: bend magnets and quadrupoles in combination with the energy chirp of the beam.
* C. Behrens, Z. Huang, and D. Xiang, PRST-AB 15, 022802 (2012).

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MOP067

Transverse Emittance-Preserving Transfer Line and Arc Compressor for High Brightness Electron Sources

emittance, dipole, electron, FEL

191

S. Di Mitri, M. Cornacchia, S. Spampinati
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
S. Spampinati
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Minimizing transverse emittance is essential in single- or few-passes accelerators designed to deliver high brightness electron beams. Emission of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is an important factor of emittance degradation. We have demonstrated, with analytical and experimental results, that this perturbation may be cancelled by imposing certain conditions on the electron optics when the bunch length is constant along the line*. This scheme of CSR suppression is then enlarged, analytically and numerically, to cover the case of varying bunch length in a periodic arc compressor**. The proposed solution hold the promise of cost-saving of compact transfer lines with large bending angles, and new schemes for beam longitudinal gymnastics both in recirculating and in single-pass accelerators driving free electron lasers.
* S. Di Mitri, M. Cornacchia, S. Spampinati, Phys. Rev. Letters, 110, 014801 (2013)
** S. Di Mitri, M. Cornacchia, Europhys. Letters, 109, 62002 (2015)

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MOP086

Novel Opportunities for Sub-meV Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Experiments at High-Repetition Rate Self-seeded XFELs

undulator, radiation, photon, scattering

257

O.V. Chubar
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
G. Geloni, A. Madsen
XFEL. EU, Hamburg, Germany
V. Kocharyan, E. Saldin, S. Serkez
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Yu. Shvyd'ko
ANL, Argonne, Ilinois, USA
J. Sutter
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS) is an important tool for studies of equilibrium dynamics in condensed matter. A new spectrometer recently proposed for ultra-high-resolution IXS (UHRIX) has achieved 0.6 meV and 0.25/nm spectral and momentum Transfer resolutions, respectively*. However, further improvements down to 0.1 meV and 0.02/nm are required to close the gap in energy-momentum space between high and low frequency probes. We Show that this goal can be achieved by further improvements in x-ray optics and by increasing the spectral flux of the incident x-ray pulses. UHRIX performs best at energies from 5 to 10 keV, where a combination of self-seeding and undulator tapering at the SASE2 beamline of the European XFEL promises up to a hundred-fold increase in average spectral flux compared to nominal SASE pulses at saturation, or three orders of magnitude more than possible with storage-ring based radiation sources. Wave-optics propagation shows that about 7·10¹² ph/s in a 90-microeV bandwidth can be achieved on the sample. This will provide unique new possibilities for IXS. Extended information about our work can be found in**.
* Y. Shvyd'ko et al., Nature Communications 5:4219 (2014).
** O. Chubar et al., ‘Novel opportunities for sub-meV inelastic X-ray scattering at high-repetition rate self-seeded X-ray free-electron lasers', http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02632, DESY 15-140, (2015).

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MOP087

Multistage CSR Microbunching Gain Development in Transport or Recirculation Arcs

lattice, dipole, damping, bunching

263

C.-Y. Tsai
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
D. Douglas, R. Li, C. Tennant
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA

Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) induced microbunching instability has been one of the most challenging issues in the design of modern accelerators. A linear Vlasov solver has been developed [1] and applied to investigate the physical processes of microbunching gain amplification for several example lattices [2]. In this paper, by further extending the concept of stage gain as proposed by Huang and Kim [3], we develop a method to characterize the microbunching development in terms of stage orders that allow the quantitative comparison of optics impacts on microbunching gain for different lattices. We find that the microbunching instability in our demonstrated arcs has a distinguishing feature of multistage amplification (e.g, up to 6th stage amplification for our example transport arcs, in contrast to two-stage amplification for a typical 4-dipole bunch compressor chicane). We also try to connect lattice optics pattern with the obtained stage gain functions by a physical interpretation. This Vlasov analysis is validated by ELEGANT [4] tracking results with excellent agreement.
[1] C. -Y. Tsai et al., MOP052, these proceedings
[2] See, for example, C. -Y. Tsai et al., ERL2015 (TUICLH2034)
[3] Z. Huang and K. -J. Kim, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 5, 074401 (2002)
[4] M. Borland, APS Light Source Note LS-287 (2000)

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TUP066

Benchmark of ELEGANT and IMPACT

space-charge, wakefield, linac, undulator

505

L. Wang, P. Emma, T.O. Raubenheimer
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
J. Qiang
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

The beam dynamics codes ELEGANT and IMAPCT have many users. We use these two codes for the design of LCLSII. Both codes use a 1D model for the coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in bend magnets. In addition, IMPACT has a 3D space-charge model, while ELEGANT uses a 1D model. To compare the two codes, especially the space-charge effects, we systematically benchmark the two codes with different physics aspects: wakefields, CSR and space-charge forces.

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TUP068

Electron Beam Phase Space Tomographie at the European XFEL Injector

electron, emittance, quadrupole, betatron

515

M. Scholz, B. Beutner
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Transverse emittances as well as the energy spread and the peak current of the electron bunches are important parameters for high-gain free electron lasers such as the European XFEL. Investigations of the 6D phase space characterisation would give important indications to optimise the beam quality for SASE operation. The injector of the European XFEL includes, inter alia, a laser heater, a transverse deflecting cavity, a spectrometer, a diagnostic section with four OTR screens as well as several quadrupole magnets. In this paper, we will discuss the possibilities to characterise the 6D phase space of the electron beam in the injector of the Eurpean XFEL.

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WEP047

Femtosecond Timing Distribution at the European XFEL

laser, timing, FEL, electron

669

C. Sydlo, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Felber, C. Gerth, J.M. Müller, H. Schlarb, F. Zummack
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
S. Jabłoński
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Accurate timing synchronization on the femtosecond timescale is an essential installation for time-resolved experiments at free-electron lasers (FELs) such as FLASH and the upcoming European XFEL. To date the required precision levels can only be achieved by a laser-based synchronization system. Such a system has been successfully deployed at FLASH and is based on the distribution of femtosecond laser pulses over actively stabilized optical fibers. For time-resolved experiments and for special diagnostics it is crucial to synchronize various laser systems to the electron beam with a long-term stability of better than 10 fs. The upcoming European XFEL has raised the demands due to its large number of stabilized optical fibers and a length of 3400 m. Specifically the increased lengths for the stabilized fibers had necessitated major advancement in precision to achieve the requirement of less than 10 fs precision. This extensive rework of the active fiber stabilization has led to a system exceeding the current existing requirements and is even prepared for increasing demands in the future. This paper reports on the laser-based synchronization system focusing on the active fiber stabilization for the European XFEL, discusses major complications, their solutions and the most recent performance results.

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