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29-Jun-06 11:30 - 12:30 THOPA — Synchrotron Light Sources and FELs
THOPA — Synchrotron Light Sources and FELs
Formation of Electron Bunches for Harmonic Cascade X-ray Free Electron Lasers
M. Cornacchia, S. Di Mitri, G. Penco (ELETTRA) P. Emma, G.V.
Stupakov (SLAC) A. Zholents (LBNL)
A relatively long electron bunch is required
for an operation of harmonic cascade free
electron lasers (FELs). This is because they
repeatedly employ a principle when the ra-
diation produced in one cascade by one group of electrons proceeds ahead and interacts with other electrons from
the same electron bunch in the next cascade. An optical laser is used to seed the radiation in the first cascade. Understandably
the length of the electron bunch in this situation must accommodate the length of the x-ray pulse multiplied
by a number of cascades plus a time jitter between the arrival time of the electron bunch and a seed laser pulse. Thus
a variation of the peak current along the electron bunch as well as slice energy spread and emittance may affect the
performance of the FEL. In this paper we analyze all possible sources affecting the distributions and interplay between
them and show how desirable distributions can be produced. Results are illustrated with simulations using particle
tracking codes.
Status of the SCSS Test Accelerator and XFEL Project in Japan
Construction of the SCSS* 250 MeV test ac-
T. Shintake, T. Ishikawa, H. Kitamura (RIKEN Spring-8 Harima) celerator was completed in October 2005, and
the beam commissioning was started in November
2005. The first light at visible wavelength, which is the spontaneous radiation from undulator, was observed
right after machine commissioning. We expect the first SASE beam around 60 nm in 2006. The purpose of the test
accelerator is to assemble all hardware components in a real machine, and check their performance, reliability and
stability. It is also very important to build all control software and link to the main frame to see system performance.
All experience will provide feedback to 8 GeV XFEL design, whose construction will start in April 2006.
*http://www-xfel.spring8.or.jp
An Integrated Femtosecond Timing Distribution System for XFELs
J. Kim, J. Burnham, dc. Cheever, J. Chen, F.X. Kaertner (MIT) M.
Ferianis (ELETTRA) F.O. Ilday (Bilkent University) F. Ludwig, H.
Schlarb, A. Winter (DESY)
Tightly synchronized lasers and rf-systems
with timing jitter in the few femtoseconds
range are an important component of future
x-ray free electron laser facilities. In this paper,
we present an optical-rf phase detector
that is capable of extracting an rf-signal from an optical pulse stream without amplitude-to-phase conversion. Extraction
of a microwave signal with less than 10 fs timing jitter (from 1 Hz to 10 MHz) from an optical pulse stream
is demonstrated. Scaling of this component to sub-femtosecond resolution is discussed. Together with low noise
mode-locked lasers, timing-stabilized optical fiber links and compact optical cross-correlators, a flexible femtosecond
timing distribution system with potentially sub-10 fs precision over distances of a few kilometres can be constructed.
Experimental results on both synchronized rf and laser sources will be presented.
*A. Winter et al. "Synchronization of Femtosecond Pulses", Proceedings of FEL 2005.**J. Kim et al. "Large-Scale
Timing Distribution and RF-Synchronization for FEL Facilities", Proc. of FEL 2004.
378 Chair: A.F. Wrulich (PSI, Villigen)