02 Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators
T25 Lasers
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THPOW054 Cumulative Damage of Ultrafast Laser Pulses 4066
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  • A. Hanuka, L. Schächter
    Technion, Haifa, Israel
  • R.J. England, I.V. Makasyuk, K. Soong, K.P. Wootton, Z. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  We demonstrate experimentally that damage threshold fluence (DTF) for fused silica changes with the number of femtosecond laser (10Hz 600Hz, 655 fs, 800nm) shots. Based on the experimental data we were able to develop a model which indicates that the change in DTF varies with number of shots logarithmically (lnp) up to a critical value. Above this value, DTF approaches an asymptotic value. Both DTF for a single shot and the asymptotic value as well as the critical value where this happens are extrinsic parameters dependent on the configuration (repetition rate, pressure and geometry near or at the surface). Indications are that the power of this dependence (p) is an intrinsic parameter independent of the configuration.  
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THPOW056 Fiber Laser Development for Dielectric Laser-driven Accelerator and Electron Beam Source 4070
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  • H. Okamoto, S. Otsuki
    The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • K. Koyama, M. Uesaka
    The University of Tokyo, Nuclear Professional School, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
  • D. Satoh, T. Shibuya
    TIT, Tokyo, Japan
  • M. Yoshida
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  Our group is aiming for developing a table-top electronμbeam source, whose beam size is micro-meter order so that we can irradiate just the nuclei of cells (1μm) and observe the behavior in real time. This beam source will be realized by dielectric laser-driven accelerators(DLAs), which is expected to produce acceleration gradients of ~GV/m. To drive these accelerators, ultra-short pulse laser has to be incident to the structure*. We chose Ytterbium (Yb) fiber laser for generating and amplifying ultra-short laser pulse, which has high quantum efficiency and can easily pumped by LD, and is proper to produce ultra-short pulses because of its wide-band oscillation. We succeeded in getting ultra-short pulse (central wavelength: {1030} nm, average output: 10 W, pulse duration: ~10 ps, reputation rate: 84 MHz) from Yb fiber laser system. Also in order to make electron bunch by photo cathode, we then converted the obtained IR laser to UV of 258 nm (4ω) using BBO and LBO crystals. We are planning to amplify the pulses by Yb:YAG in future, which has its amplification band in {1030} nm.
* K. Koyama el al., "Design Of Photonic Crystal Accelerator For Radiation Biology," IPAC'12 Proceedings (2014)
 
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THPOW057 Direct High Power Laser Diagnostic Technique on Focused Electron Bunch 4073
 
  • D. Igarashi, A. Endo, K. Sakaue, T. Takahashi, M. Washio
    RISE, Tokyo, Japan
 
  In laser produced plasma EUV source, high intensity pulse CO2 laser is essential for plasma generation. To achieve high conversion efficiency and stable EUV power, we would like to measure a laser profile in the interaction point. However, there is no way to measure directly the laser profile of such a high intensity laser at the focus point. Therefore, we have been developing laser profiler based on laser Compton scattering(LCS). LCS signal by using focused electron beam shows 1D laser profile. 2D laser profile can be reconstructed by one-dimensional laser profiles from various angles using computer tomography. This method is suitable for high intensity laser, but very small spot size of electron beam is required. To obtain small spot size, we used S-band Cs-Te photocathode RF-Gun and specially designed solenoid lens at Waseda university. We already succeeded in observing minimum beam size of about 20 μm rms and this is adequate to scan the CO2 laser. In this conference, we will report the result of the laser Compton scattering with pulse CO2 laser, the preparatory experiment in measuring a metal wire cross section and the present progresses.  
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THPOW058 Drive Laser System for the DC-SRF Photoinjector at Peking University 4076
 
  • F.M. Liu, L.W. Feng, S. Huang, L. Lin, K.X. Liu, S.Y. Si, Zh.W. Wang, G. Zhao
    PKU, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  The DC-SRF photoinjector, developed at Peking University, uses Cs2Te as the photocathode and accordingly 266 nm laser is used as the drive laser. A drive laser sys-tem,which includes a 1064 nm laser oscillator, a four-stage amplifier, and second and fourth harmonic genera-tors, has been designed and applied successfully. To avoid the high average current electron beam from hitting the vacuum tube and causing safety problems, a laser pulse selector with an EO modulator has been designed and included into the laser drive system to reduce the repetition rate of electron pulses during the DC-SRF photoinjector commissioning. It can adjust the repetition rate of laser pulses from 81.25 kHz to 81.25 MHz. In this paper, we introduce the drive laser system and describe the laser pulse selector in detail.  
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THPOW059 UV Pulse Shaping with a-BBO Crystals for the Photocathode RF Gun 4079
 
  • D. Wang, W.-H. Huang, L.X. Yan
    TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  Recently, manipulation with the drive laser plays a significant role in high brightness electron beam production by the photocathode RF gun. The method based on pulse stacking with birefringent crystal serials was tried to longitudinally shape ultraviolet laser pulse. Using four or five pieces of a-BBO crystals to stack an input UV pulse with appropriate initial duration into 16 or 32 sub-pulses to form quasi flattop UV laser pulse, which can be applied for emittance optimization of the electron beam based on the photocathode RF gun. Moreover, the negative slop of the energy transmittance of a-BBO serials is also revealed to be a passive stabilization mechanism for energy jitter reduction in the driving laser. With appropriate design of a-BBO serials, this method can fulfill the requirements for driving laser in a broad scope of applications such as x-ray FELs and high-power Terahertz(THz) radiation production.  
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