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TY - CONF AU - Ortega, J.-M. AU - Berthet, J.P. AU - Glotin, F. AU - Prazeres, R. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Study of the CLIO FEL in the Far-infrared in a Partially Guided Mode J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - The infrared free-electron laser offers a large tunability since the FEL gain remains high throughout the infrared spectral range, and the reflectivity of metal mirrors remains also close to unity. The main limitation comes from the diffraction of the optical beam due to the finite size of the vacuum chamber of the undulator. A solution is to use this chamber as a waveguide by adaptating the radius of curvature of the cavity mirrors to this regime. Then, as has been shown before* a minimum appears in the spectrum that can be produced by the FEL. We discuss the physical mechanism of this particular regime and compare it to experiments using vacuum chambers of different tranverse sizes. A good agreement is found with results of simulations and with a simple analytical formula. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2859 EP - 2862 KW - vacuum KW - FEL KW - cavity KW - undulator KW - simulation DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THPRO004 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/thpro004.pdf ER -