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Retention of Attosecond Pulse Structure in an HHG Seeded FEL Amplifier

Optics 2008-09-05 v1 Accelerator Physics

Abstract

A model is presented which demonstrates that the attosecond pulse structure of a High Harmonic Generation (HHG) seed may be retained through to saturation in an FEL amplifier. At wavelengths of ~12nm a train of attosecond pulses of widths ~300 attoseconds with peak powers in excess of 1 GW are predicted from full 3D simulation. Methods for improving these results are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0777,
  title  = {Retention of Attosecond Pulse Structure in an HHG Seeded FEL Amplifier},
  author = {B. W. J. McNeil and N. R. Thompson and D. J. Dunning and B. Sheehy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0777},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Submitted to 30th International Free Electron Laser Conference, Korea, 2008