Fresh-slice multicolour X-ray free-electron lasers
Abstract
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond X-ray pulses with a narrow energy bandwidth and unprecedented brightness. Ultrafast physical and chemical dynamics, initiated with a site-specific X-ray pulse, can be explored using XFELs with a second ultrashort X-ray probe pulse. However, existing double-pulse schemes are complicated, difficult to customize or provide only low-intensity pulses. Here we present the novel fresh-slice technique for multicolour pulse production, wherein different temporal slices of an electron bunch lase to saturation in separate undulator sections. This method combines electron bunch tailoring from a passive wakefield device with trajectory control to provide multicolour pulses. The fresh-slice scheme outperforms existing techniques at soft X-ray wavelengths. It produces femtosecond pulses with a power of tens of gigawatts and flexible colour separation. The pulse delay can be varied from temporal overlap to almost one picosecond. As a result, we also demonstrate the first three-colour XFEL and variably polarized two-colour pulses.
- Authors:
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[1];
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1340545
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16828
Journal ID: ISSN 1749-4885; nphoton.2016.201; TRN: US1701344
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; SC0012376
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Photonics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1749-4885
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; atomic and molecular physics; free-electron lasers; ultrafast photonics; X-rays
Citation Formats
Lutman, Alberto A., Maxwell, Timothy J., MacArthur, James P., Guetg, Marc W., Berrah, Nora, Coffee, Ryan N., Ding, Yuantao, Huang, Zhirong, Marinelli, Agostino, Moeller, Stefan, and Zemella, Johann C. U. Fresh-slice multicolour X-ray free-electron lasers. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.201.
Lutman, Alberto A., Maxwell, Timothy J., MacArthur, James P., Guetg, Marc W., Berrah, Nora, Coffee, Ryan N., Ding, Yuantao, Huang, Zhirong, Marinelli, Agostino, Moeller, Stefan, & Zemella, Johann C. U. Fresh-slice multicolour X-ray free-electron lasers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.201
Lutman, Alberto A., Maxwell, Timothy J., MacArthur, James P., Guetg, Marc W., Berrah, Nora, Coffee, Ryan N., Ding, Yuantao, Huang, Zhirong, Marinelli, Agostino, Moeller, Stefan, and Zemella, Johann C. U. Mon .
"Fresh-slice multicolour X-ray free-electron lasers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.201. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1340545.
@article{osti_1340545,
title = {Fresh-slice multicolour X-ray free-electron lasers},
author = {Lutman, Alberto A. and Maxwell, Timothy J. and MacArthur, James P. and Guetg, Marc W. and Berrah, Nora and Coffee, Ryan N. and Ding, Yuantao and Huang, Zhirong and Marinelli, Agostino and Moeller, Stefan and Zemella, Johann C. U.},
abstractNote = {X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond X-ray pulses with a narrow energy bandwidth and unprecedented brightness. Ultrafast physical and chemical dynamics, initiated with a site-specific X-ray pulse, can be explored using XFELs with a second ultrashort X-ray probe pulse. However, existing double-pulse schemes are complicated, difficult to customize or provide only low-intensity pulses. Here we present the novel fresh-slice technique for multicolour pulse production, wherein different temporal slices of an electron bunch lase to saturation in separate undulator sections. This method combines electron bunch tailoring from a passive wakefield device with trajectory control to provide multicolour pulses. The fresh-slice scheme outperforms existing techniques at soft X-ray wavelengths. It produces femtosecond pulses with a power of tens of gigawatts and flexible colour separation. The pulse delay can be varied from temporal overlap to almost one picosecond. As a result, we also demonstrate the first three-colour XFEL and variably polarized two-colour pulses.},
doi = {10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.201},
journal = {Nature Photonics},
number = 11,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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