Observation of ultrawide bandwidth, up to 15% full-width, high-gain operation of a self-amplified spontaneous emission free-election laser (SASE FEL) is reported. This type of lasing is obtained with a strongly chirped beam (delta E/E similar to 1.7%) emitted from the accelerator. Because of nonlinear pulse compression during transport, a short, high current bunch with strong mismatch errors is injected into the undulator, giving high FEL gain. Start-to-end simulations reproduce key features of the measurements and provide insight into mechanisms, such as angular spread in emitted photon and electron trajectory distributions, which yield novel features in the radiation spectrum.
Observation of anomalously large spectral bandwidth in a high-gain self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser / G., Andonian; A., Murokh; J. B., Rosenzweig; R., Agustsson; M., Babzien; I., Ben Zvi; P., Frigola; J. Y., Huang; Palumbo, Luigi; C., Pellegrini; S., Reiche; G., Travish; C., Vicario; V., Yakimenko. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 5:5(2005), pp. 054801-054804. [10.1103/physrevlett.95.054801]
Observation of anomalously large spectral bandwidth in a high-gain self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser
PALUMBO, Luigi;
2005
Abstract
Observation of ultrawide bandwidth, up to 15% full-width, high-gain operation of a self-amplified spontaneous emission free-election laser (SASE FEL) is reported. This type of lasing is obtained with a strongly chirped beam (delta E/E similar to 1.7%) emitted from the accelerator. Because of nonlinear pulse compression during transport, a short, high current bunch with strong mismatch errors is injected into the undulator, giving high FEL gain. Start-to-end simulations reproduce key features of the measurements and provide insight into mechanisms, such as angular spread in emitted photon and electron trajectory distributions, which yield novel features in the radiation spectrum.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
