Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at 2--4 nm using the SLAC linac
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
The authors describe the possible use of the SLAC linac to drive a unique, powerful, short wavelength Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Using the FEL principle, lasing is achieved in a single pass of a high peak current electron beam through a long undulator by self-amplified-spontaneous-emission (SASE). The main components are a high-brightness electron RF gun with a photocathode, two electron bunch length compressors, the existing SLAC linac, beam diagnostics, and a long undulator combined with a FODO quadrupole focusing system. The RF gun, to be installed about 1 km from the end of the SLAC linac, would produce a single bunch of 6 x 10{sup 9} electrons with an invariant emittance of about 3 mm-mrad and a bunch length of about 500 {mu}m. That bunch is then accelerated to 100 MeV and compressed to a length of about 200 {mu}m. The main SLAC linac accelerates the bunch to 2 GeV were a second bunch compressor reduces the length to 30--40 {mu}m and produces a peak current of 2--3 kA. The bunch is then accelerated to 7--8 GeV and transported to a 50--70 m long undulator. Using electrons below 8 GeV, the undulator could operate at wavelengths down to 2 nm, producing about 10 GW peak power in sub-ps light pulses. At a linac repetition rate of 120 Hz, the average power is about 1 W. Linac operation at lower beam energies provides longer wavelength radiation. After the undulator, the beam is deposited in a dump. The LCLS light pulses are then distributed to multiple user stations using grazing incident mirrors. Length compression, emittance control, phase stability, FEL design criteria, and parameter tolerances are discussed. A demonstration experiment is also described which uses the SLAC linac and (possibly) the PALADIN undulator to study SASE to power saturation at wavelengths of 40--360 nm.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 10114933
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-6312; LBL-33456; CONF-930722-56; ON: DE94005235; TRN: AHC29402%%80
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE),San Diego, CA (United States),11-16 Jul 1993; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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