Measurements and Simulations of Ultra-Low Emittance and Ultra-Short Electron Beams in the Linac Coherent Light Source

Journal Article · Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2009 · Submitted to Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.051301· OSTI ID:948837

Ding, Y; Brachmann, A; Decker, F -J; Dowell, D; Emma, P; Frisch, J; Gilevich, S; Hays, G; Hering, Ph; Huang, Z; Iverson, R; Loos, H; Miahnahri, A; Nuhn, H -D; Ratner, D; Turner, J; Welch, J; White, W; Wu, J

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is an x-ray Free-Electron Laser (FEL) project presently in a commissioning phase at SLAC. We report here on very low emittance measurements made at low bunch charge, and a few femtosecond bunch length produced by the LCLS bunch compressors. Start-to-end simulations associated with these beam parameters show the possibilities of generating hundreds of GW at 1.5 {angstrom} x-ray wavelength and nearly a single longitudinally spike at 1.5 nm with 2-fs duration.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 948837
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-13525; TRN: US0901720
• Journal Information: Submitted to Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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