Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator
After the successful operation of the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), soft and hard x-ray free electron lasers (FELs) are being built, designed, or proposed at many accelerator laboratories. Acceleration employing lower frequency rf cavities, rangin...
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| author | Yipeng Sun (孙一鹏) Chris Adolphsen Cecile Limborg-Deprey Tor Raubenheimer Juhao Wu |
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| description | After the successful operation of the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), soft and hard x-ray free electron lasers (FELs) are being built, designed, or proposed at many accelerator laboratories. Acceleration employing lower frequency rf cavities, ranging from L-band to C-band, is usually adopted in these designs. In the first stage bunch compression, higher-frequency harmonic rf system is employed to linearize the beam’s longitudinal phase space, which is nonlinearly chirped during the lower frequency rf acceleration process. In this paper, a hard x-ray FEL design using an all X-band accelerator at 11.424 GHz (from photocathode rf gun to linac end) is presented, without the assistance of any harmonic rf linearization. It achieves LCLS-like performance at low charge using X-band linac drivers, which is more versatile, efficient, and compact than ones using S-band or C-band rf technology. It employs initially 42 microns long (rms), low-charge (10 pC) electron bunches from an X-band photoinjector. An overall bunch compression ratio of roughly 100 times is proposed in a two stage bunch compressor system. The start-to-end macroparticle 3D simulation employing several computer codes is presented in this paper, where space charge, wakefields, and incoherent and coherent synchrotron radiation effects are included. Employing an undulator with a short period of 1.5 cm, a Genesis FEL simulation shows successful lasing at a wavelength of 0.15 nm with a pulse length of 2 fs and a power saturation length as short as 20 meters, which is equivalent to LCLS low-charge mode. Its overall length of both accelerators and undulators is 180 meters (much shorter than the effective LCLS overall length of 1230 meters, including an accelerator length of 1100 meters and an undulator length of 130 meters), which makes it possible to be built in places where only limited space is available. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ddd0f3f96d934865bbb5e80722b7d0762022-12-22T01:25:42ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams1098-44022012-03-0115303070310.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.030703Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and acceleratorYipeng Sun (孙一鹏)Chris AdolphsenCecile Limborg-DepreyTor RaubenheimerJuhao WuAfter the successful operation of the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), soft and hard x-ray free electron lasers (FELs) are being built, designed, or proposed at many accelerator laboratories. Acceleration employing lower frequency rf cavities, ranging from L-band to C-band, is usually adopted in these designs. In the first stage bunch compression, higher-frequency harmonic rf system is employed to linearize the beam’s longitudinal phase space, which is nonlinearly chirped during the lower frequency rf acceleration process. In this paper, a hard x-ray FEL design using an all X-band accelerator at 11.424 GHz (from photocathode rf gun to linac end) is presented, without the assistance of any harmonic rf linearization. It achieves LCLS-like performance at low charge using X-band linac drivers, which is more versatile, efficient, and compact than ones using S-band or C-band rf technology. It employs initially 42 microns long (rms), low-charge (10 pC) electron bunches from an X-band photoinjector. An overall bunch compression ratio of roughly 100 times is proposed in a two stage bunch compressor system. The start-to-end macroparticle 3D simulation employing several computer codes is presented in this paper, where space charge, wakefields, and incoherent and coherent synchrotron radiation effects are included. Employing an undulator with a short period of 1.5 cm, a Genesis FEL simulation shows successful lasing at a wavelength of 0.15 nm with a pulse length of 2 fs and a power saturation length as short as 20 meters, which is equivalent to LCLS low-charge mode. Its overall length of both accelerators and undulators is 180 meters (much shorter than the effective LCLS overall length of 1230 meters, including an accelerator length of 1100 meters and an undulator length of 130 meters), which makes it possible to be built in places where only limited space is available.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.030703 |
| spellingShingle | Yipeng Sun (孙一鹏) Chris Adolphsen Cecile Limborg-Deprey Tor Raubenheimer Juhao Wu Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams |
| title | Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator |
| title_full | Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator |
| title_fullStr | Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator |
| title_short | Low-charge, hard x-ray free electron laser driven with an X-band injector and accelerator |
| title_sort | low charge hard x ray free electron laser driven with an x band injector and accelerator |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.030703 |
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