Borland, M.
(Michael Borland)

TUBIS01 Attosecond X-ray Pulses in the LCLS using the Slotted Foil Method
Paul J Emma, Zhirong Huang (SLAC, Menlo Park, California), Michael Borland (ANL/APS, Argonne, Illinois)

A proposal has been made to generate femtosecond and sub-femtosecond x-ray pulses in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) SASE FEL by using a slotted spoiler foil located at the center of the second bunch compressor chicane. This previous study highlighted a simple case, using the nominal LCLS parameters, to produce a 2-fsec fwhm, 8-keV x-ray pulse. The study also pointed out the possibility of attaining sub-femtosecond pulses by somewhat modifying the LCLS compression parameters, but did not undertake a full tracking simulation for this more aggressive case. We take the opportunity here to study this `attosecond' case in detail, including a full tracking simulation, pushing the limit of the technique.