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We examine the experimental requirements for realizing a high-gain Quantum free-electron laser (Quantum FEL). Beyond fundamental constraints on electron beam and undulator, we discuss optimized interaction geometries, include coherence…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander Debus , Klaus Steiniger , Peter Kling , Moritz Carmesin , Roland Sauerbrey

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are cutting-edge scientific instruments for a wide range of disciplines. Conventionally, the narrow bandwidth is pursued in an XFEL. However, in recent years, the large-bandwidth XFEL operation schemes are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Jiawei Yan , Haixiao Deng

Several methods have been proposed in the literature to improve Free Electron Laser output by transforming the electron phase-space before entering the FEL interaction region. By utilising `beam by design' with novel undulators and other…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 J. R. Henderson , L. T. Campbell , B. W. J. McNeil

Despite the successful demonstration of compact free electron lasers (FELs) driven by laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs), the inherent shot-to-shot fluctuations in LWFAs, including both laser and plasma instabilities, remain a primary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Hai Jiang , Ke Feng , Runshu Hu , Qiwen Zhan , Wentao Wang , Ruxin Li

The X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are cutting-edge instruments pivotal in a broad range of fields, providing high-power X-ray pulses with durations spanning from femtoseconds to attoseconds. One of the critical challenges in XFEL…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Zihan Zhu , Jiawei Yan , Hanxiang Yang , Duan Gu , Bart Faatz , Haixiao Deng , Qiang Gu

In recent years X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) proved to be unmatched sources of ultrashort pulses of spatially coherent quasimonochromatic X-ray radiation. Diagnostics of XFEL emission properties, in particular pulse duration, spectrum…

It is shown via theory and simulation that the resonant frequency of a Free Electron Laser may be modulated to obtain an FEL interaction with a frequency bandwidth which is at least an order of magnitude greater than normal FEL operation.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 L. T. Campbell , B. W. J. McNeil

High-gain free-electron lasers (FELs) are becoming important light sources at short wavelengths such as the EUV and X-ray regimes. A particularly promising concept is the regenerative amplifier FEL (RAFEL), which can greatly increase the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 River R. Robles , Aliaksei Halavanau , Gabriel Marcus , Zhirong Huang

Arbitrary manipulation of the temporal and spectral properties of X-ray pulses at free-electron lasers (FELs) would revolutionize many experimental applications. At the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford National Accelerator…

The End-of-Line (EoL) calibration of semi-active suspension systems for road vehicles is usually a critical and expensive task, needing a team of vehicle and control experts as well as many hours of professional driving. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Gianluca Savaia , Youngil Sohn , Simone Formentin , Giulio Panzani , Matteo Corno , Sergio M. Savaresi

Harmonic lasing in a free electron laser with a planar undulator (under the condition that the fundamental frequency is suppressed) might be a cheap and efficient way of extension of wavelength ranges of existing and planned X-ray FEL…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

High-brightness X-ray pulses, as generated at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), are used in a variety of scientific experiments. Many experimental testbeds require optical equipment, e.g Compound Refractive Lenses (CRLs),…

A high peak current, flat longitudinal phase space electron beam is desirable for efficient x-ray free electron laser (FEL) radiation in next generation light sources. To attain such a beam requires the extensive design of the linear…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Ji Qiang

We present a comprehensive experimental analysis of statistical properties of the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) free-electron laser (FEL) FLASH at DESY in Hamburg by means of Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry. The…

The single-pulse spectrum of self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) free electron lasers (FELs) is characterized by random fluctuations in frequency. The typical spectrum bandwidth for a hard x-ray FEL is in the range of 10-20 eV and is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Gennady Stupakov , Max Zolotorev

At the SASE-FEL user facilities FLASH and European XFEL, superconducting TESLA type cavities are used for acceleration of the driving electron bunches. The high achievable duty cycle allows for operating with long bunch trains, hence…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Thorsten Hellert , Winfried Decking , Julien Branlard

High-brightness femtosecond-to-attosecond pulses are indispensable for probing electron dynamics on their fundamental temporal scales. X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) at high repetition rates will facilitate high-statistics measurements…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Junhao Liu , Zhen Wang , Lanpeng Ni , Yujie Lu , Chao Feng , Zhentang Zhao

Beam premodulation on free electron laser (FEL) offers considerable enhancement in gain and efficiency when the phase of the premodulated beam is -pi/2 and the beam is highly modulated implying the maximum beam oscillatory velocity due to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vivek Beniwal , Suresh C. Sharma , Satoshi Hamaguchi

At the Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser, superconducting TeV-energy superconducting linear accelerator (TESLA)-type cavities are used for the acceleration of electron bunches, generating…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Thorsten Hellert , Nicoleta Baboi , Liangliang Shi

The European X-ray Free Electron Laser is a high-intensity X-ray light source currently being constructed in the area of Hamburg, that will provide spatially coherent X-rays in the energy range between $0.25\,\mathrm{keV}$ and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-06 A. Münnich , S. Hauf , B. C. Heisen , F. Januschek , M. Kuster , P. M. Lang , N. Raab , T. Rüter , J. Sztuk-Dambietz , M. Turcato