Study of a free-electron laser driven by a laser-plasma accelerated beam at Peking University
- Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
The percent level energy spread and large divergence of laser-plasma beam are the main challenges of realizing compact short-wavelength free-electron lasers based on laser-plasma accelerators. These issues can be solved with proposed transverse gradient undulator method or bunch decompression method along with proper transport design. We present a study of using an expected 500 MeV laser-plasma beam with 0.3 mm•mrad normalized emittance and 0.3 mrad divergence at Peking University to drive compact free-electron laser at 30 nm. We employ the bunch decompression method with a chromatic matching beamline as well as the transverse gradient undulator method with assumed matched beam. Simulation shows that 700 MW power, 9.7 fs pulse duration and 0.85% relative bandwidth FEL output can be obtained using chromatic matched bunch decompression method. As a result FEL with similar performance can be obtained using the transverse gradient undulator scheme.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1506846
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 925, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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