Gain narrowing of temporal and spectral widths in the UVSOR-FEL
- Graduate Univ. for Advanced Studies, Okazaki (Japan)
- Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki (Japan); and others
Storage ring free electron laser (SR-FEL) dynamics on the UVSOR-FEL in the visible region has been studied with measurements of the temporal and the spectral widths of the laser micropulse. The micro- and the macro-temporal structures were measured using a dual sweep streak camera. We have also investigated spectral evolution of the laser with a Fabry-Perot etalon. Only a slow sweep function of the streak camera has been used for a fringe pattern formed by the air gap etalon to derive time-dependent variations of the spectral shape. We have measured the time-averaged pulsewidths and linewidths as a function of the ring current. We observed that every macropulse contains internal substructures in both the temporal and the spectral distributions. The internal substructure, however, disappeared when the spectra of more than fifty macropulses were superimposed, and the envelope of the distribution became close to a Gaussian. We have found that the pulsewidth and the linewidth become narrower as the ring current decays. In the gain-switching mode, the micropulse duration and the linewidth at the maximum ring current were 80 ps(FWHM) and 0.3 nm(FWHM), respectively, and decreased down to 20 ps and 0.1 nm just above the threshold current. The temporal and the spectral widths seem to follow the gain behavior. Assuming that the pulsewidth and the linewidth depend on the laser gain, the bandwidth in weakly saturated situation such as SR-FEL is determined by the gain narrowing of the laser amplifier. Because the gain evolution is able to be deduced from the macropulse shape, we can obtain the relation between the bandwidth and an effective gain above the mirror loss. The temporal and the spectral evolutions of the UVSOR-FEL were well explained by the gain narrowing related to a gain integrated from the oscillation build-up to the gain saturation. Detail of the experiment and the analysis will be presented.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 238724
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-61982-Absts.; CONF-9508156-Absts.; ON: DE96002729; TRN: 96:013213
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 375; Journal Issue: 1-3; Conference: 17. international free electron laser conference, New York, NY (United States), 21-25 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]; Related Information: Is Part Of 17th international free electron laser conference and 2nd international FEL users` workshop. Program and abstracts; PB: 300 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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