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In this paper we propose a new method for measurements of the longitudinal profile of 100 femtosecond electron bunches for X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs). The method is simply the combination of two well-known techniques, which where…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. L. Saldin , E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

Radio frequency (RF) waves can provide heating, current and flow drive, as well as instability control for steady state operations of fusion experiments. A particle simulation model has been developed in this work to provide a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 A. Kuley , Z. X. Wang , Z. Lin , F. Wessel

The spark plasma sintering (SPS) process, a key technology for advanced material manufacturing, demands accurate and efficient simulation tools to capture the complex electro-thermal-mechanical interactions inherent in powder materials.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 A. Kumar , Z. Zhang , M. Bambach , M. Afrasiabi

Free Electron Lasers (FEL) are commonly regarded as the potential key application of laser wakefield accelerators (LWFA). It has been found that electron bunches exiting from state-of-the-art LWFAs exhibit a normalized 6-dimensional beam…

Independently from electron beam based procedures, photon beam based diagnostics is an alternative way for alignment and commissioning of the numerous undulator cells in a high-gain short-wavelength free-electron laser (FEL). In this paper,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Chao Feng , Haixiao Deng , Manzhou Zhang , Shunqiang Tian , Meng Zhang , Bo Liu , Zhimin Dai

When a photon collides with a laser pulse, an electron-positron pair can be produced via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. A simulation framework has been developed to calculate this process, which is based on a ponderomotive approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 T. G. Blackburn , B. King

A fast full-wave simulation technique is presented for the analysis of large irregular planar arrays of identical 3-D metallic antennas. The solution method relies on the Macro Basis Functions (MBF) approach and an interpolatory technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Ha Bui-Van , Jens Abraham , Michel Arts , Quentin Gueuning , Christopher Raucy , David Gonzalez-Ovejero , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Christophe Craeye

Previous models of the quantum regime of operation of the Free Electron Laser (QFEL) have performed an averaging and the application of periodic boundary conditions to the coupled Maxwell - Schrodinger equations over short, resonant…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 M. S. Brown , J. R. Henderson , L. T. Campbell , B. W. J. McNeil

The freud Python package is a powerful library for analyzing simulation data. Written with modern simulation and data analysis workflows in mind, freud provides a Python interface to fast, parallelized C++ routines that run efficiently on…

Wavelength stability of free-electron lasers (FELs) is one of the important parameters for various applications. In this paper we describe two different methods to diagnose the wavelength stability of a mid-infrared (MIR) FEL. The first one…

The simplest high gain free electron laser (FEL) amplifier concept is proposed. A klystron amplifier has the useful property that the various electronic processes take place in separate portions of the amplifier, rather than overlapping as…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Saldin , E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

High-intensity laser plasma interactions create complex computational problems because they involve both fluid and kinetic regimes, which need models that maintain physical precision while keeping computational speed. The research…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Sadra Saremi , Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh

Designing photonic integrated circuits requires accurate electromagnetic field simulations, which remain computationally expensive even for simple device geometries. We present PIC-Flow, a generative neural surrogate that predicts…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-11 Joseph Quaratiello , Anthony Rizzo

Despite tremendous progress in x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) science over the last decade, future applications still demand fully coherent, stable x-rays that have not been demonstrated in existing X-ray FEL facilities. In this Letter, we…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Jingyi Tang , Zhen Zhang , Jenny Morgan , Erik Hemsing , Zhirong Huang

Applying gyrokinetic simulations for theoretical turbulence and transport studies to the plasma edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) presents significant challenges. To in particular account for steep density and temperature gradients in the…

The motion and photon emission of electrons in a superlattice may be described as in an undulator. Therefore, there is a close analogy between ballistic electrons in a superlattice and electrons in a free electron laser (FEL). Touching upon…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 I. V. Dovgan

Laser-driven free-electron lasers (LDFELs) replace magnetostatic undulators with the electromagnetic fields of a laser pulse. Because the undulator period is half the wavelength of the laser pulse, LDFELs can amplify x rays using lower…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 D. Ramsey , B. Malaca , T. T. Simpson , M. Formanek , L. S. Mack , J. Vieira , D. H. Froula , J. P. Palastro

A simplified theoretical model for free-electron laser oscillator (FELO) simulation which reserves the main physics is proposed. In stead of using traditional macro particles sampling method, the theoretical model takes advantages of low…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Kai Li , Minghao Song , Haixiao Deng

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method has been widely used for plasma simulation, because of its noise-reduction capability and moderate computational cost. The immersed finite element (IFE) method is efficient for solving interface problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Jinwei Bai , Yong Cao , Yuchuan Chu , Xu Zhang

External seeded free-electron lasers (FELs) are compelling tools for generating fully coherent EUV and soft X-ray radiations. Echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG), the most typical representative of external seeded FELs, has witnessed a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Xiaofan Wang , Li Zeng , Weiqing Zhang , Xueming Yang