Postsaturation dynamics and superluminal propagation of a superradiant spike in a free-electron laser amplifier

Yang, Xi; Mirian, Najmeh; Giannessi, Luca

doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.010703

Title: Postsaturation dynamics and superluminal propagation of a superradiant spike in a free-electron laser amplifier

Journal Article · 13 January 2020 · Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.010703 · OSTI ID:1593245

Yang, Xi ^[1]; Mirian, Najmeh ^[2]; Giannessi, Luca ^[3]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy)
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy); Lab. Nazionali di Frascati (Italy)

We study the dynamics of an isolated spike of radiation in superradiant regime. We show that conditions exist where the pulse moves with a group velocity larger than the velocity of light in vacuum and is followed by a pedestal resulting from a complex postsaturation dynamics. The tail is constituted by a train of subpulses with both transverse and longitudinal coherence and decaying amplitudes. We analyze the dynamical conditions leading to the formation of the main pulse and the tail. We study the correlation of the tail structure with the longitudinal phase space of the electrons, and provide a recipe to partially suppress this tail.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1593245

Report Number(s):: BNL-213561-2020-JAAM; PRABCJ; TRN: US2101082

Journal Information:: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 23, Issue 1; ISSN 2469-9888

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 8 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (45)

Megahertz data collection from protein microcrystals at an X-ray free-electron laser Grünbein, Marie Luise; Bielecki, Johan; Gorel, Alexander Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05953-4	journal	August 2018
Pulse Duration of Seeded Free-Electron Lasers Finetti, Paola; Höppner, Hauke; Allaria, Enrico Physical Review X, Vol. 7, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021043	journal	June 2017
Proposal for Intense Attosecond Radiation from an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Zholents, Alexander A.; Fawley, William M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.224801	journal	June 2004
Measurements of the dispersive and absorptive properties of the free-electron-laser gain medium Jaroszynski, D. A.; Pidgeon, C. R.; Kimmitt, M. F. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 296, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(90)91190-M	journal	October 1990
Operation of a free-electron laser from the extreme ultraviolet to the water window Ackermann, W.; Asova, G.; Ayvazyan, V. Nature Photonics, Vol. 1, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.76	journal	June 2007
A compact X-ray free-electron laser emitting in the sub-ångström region Ishikawa, Tetsuya; Aoyagi, Hideki; Asaka, Takao Nature Photonics, Vol. 6, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.141	journal	June 2012
First lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser Emma, P.; Akre, R.; Arthur, J. Nature Photonics, Vol. 4, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.176	journal	August 2010
Spectrum, temporal structure, and fluctuations in a high-gain free-electron laser starting from noise Bonifacio, R.; De Salvo, L.; Pierini, P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 73, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.70	journal	July 1994
Self-amplified spontaneous emission FEL with energy-chirped electron beam and its application for generation of attosecond x-ray pulses Saldin, E. L.; Schneidmiller, E. A.; Yurkov, M. V. Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 9, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.9.050702	journal	May 2006
Watanabe et al. Reply: Watanabe, T.; Wang, X. J.; Murphy, J. B. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.029502	journal	July 2007
Free electron lasers and soliton propagation Dattoli, G.; Levi, D.; Mattioli, M. Physics Letters A, Vol. 256, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00218-2	journal	June 1999
Chirped Seeded Free-Electron Lasers: Self-Standing Light Sources for Two-Color Pump-Probe Experiments De Ninno, Giovanni; Mahieu, Benoît; Allaria, Enrico Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.064801	journal	February 2013
Observational cosmology within the ESA science programme Bonnet, R. M. Il Nuovo Cimento C, Vol. 13, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02515771	journal	January 1990
Generation of ultra-short, high brightness electron beams for single-spike SASE FEL operation Rosenzweig, J. B.; Alesini, D.; Andonian, G. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 593, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.04.083	journal	August 2008
Exponential growth, superradiance, and tunability of a seeded free electron laser Wu, Juhao; Murphy, James B.; Wang, Xijie Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.003255	journal	January 2008
Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography Chapman, Henry N.; Fromme, Petra; Barty, Anton Nature, Vol. 470, Issue 7332, p. 73-77 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09750	journal	February 2011
Sustained Saturation in a Free-Electron Laser Oscillator at Perfect Synchronism of an Optical Cavity Nishimori, N.; Hajima, R.; Nagai, R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 86, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5707	journal	June 2001
Deep saturated Free Electron Laser oscillators and frozen spikes Ottaviani, P. L.; Pagnutti, S.; Dattoli, G. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 834 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.047	journal	October 2016
Two-stage seeded soft-X-ray free-electron laser Allaria, E.; Castronovo, D.; Cinquegrana, P. Nature Photonics, Vol. 7, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.277	journal	October 2013
High-Power Femtosecond Soft X Rays from Fresh-Slice Multistage Free-Electron Lasers Lutman, Alberto A.; Guetg, Marc W.; Maxwell, Timothy J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.264801	journal	June 2018
The superradiant regime of a FEL: Analytical and numerical results Bonifacio, R.; De Salvo Souza, L.; Pierini, P. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 296, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(90)91234-3	journal	October 1990
Progress in the Hamiltonian picture of the free-electron laser Dattoli, G.; Marino, A.; Renieri, A. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 17, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.1981.1071268	journal	August 1981
Nonlinear pulse evolution in seeded free-electron laser amplifiers and in free-electron laser cascades Giannessi, L.; Musumeci, P.; Spampinati, S. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2010624	journal	August 2005
Collective instabilities and high-gain regime in a free electron laser Bonifacio, R.; Pellegrini, C.; Narducci, L. M. Optics Communications, Vol. 50, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(84)90105-6	journal	July 1984
Theory of optical maser amplifiers Arecchi, F.; Bonifacio, R. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 1, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.1965.1072212	journal	July 1965
Statistical properties of radiation from VUV and X-ray free electron laser Saldin, E. L.; Schneidmiller, E. A.; Yurkov, M. V. Optics Communications, Vol. 148, Issue 4-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00670-6	journal	March 1998
Optical Shaping of X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers Marinelli, A.; Coffee, R.; Vetter, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.254801	journal	June 2016
Attosecond x-ray pulses produced by ultra short transverse slicing via laser electron beam interaction Zholents, A. A.; Zolotorev, M. S. New Journal of Physics, Vol. 10, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/10/2/025005	journal	February 2008
Superluminal (but causal) propagation of wave packets in transparent media with inverted atomic populations Chiao, Raymond Y. Physical Review A, Vol. 48, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.48.R34	journal	July 1993
Superradiant Cascade in a Seeded Free-Electron Laser Giannessi, L.; Bellaveglia, M.; Chiadroni, E. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.044801	journal	January 2013
Highly coherent and stable pulses from the FERMI seeded free-electron laser in the extreme ultraviolet Allaria, E.; Appio, R.; Badano, L. Nature Photonics, Vol. 6, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.233	journal	September 2012
Noise in free-electron laser amplifier Haus, H. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 17, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.1981.1071289	journal	August 1981
Obtaining attosecond x-ray pulses using a self-amplified spontaneous emission free electron laser Zholents, A. A.; Penn, G. Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 8, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.8.050704	journal	May 2005
Tapering enhanced stimulated superradiant amplification Duris, J.; Murokh, A.; Musumeci, P. New Journal of Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/6/063036	journal	June 2015
Charge migration and charge transfer in molecular systems Wörner, Hans Jakob; Arrell, Christopher A.; Banerji, Natalie Structural Dynamics, Vol. 4, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4996505	journal	November 2017
Pulse Splitting in Short Wavelength Seeded Free Electron Lasers Labat, M.; Joly, N.; Bielawski, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.264801	journal	December 2009
Propagation of a Gaussian Light Pulse through an Anomalous Dispersion Medium Garrett, C. G. B.; McCumber, D. E. Physical Review A, Vol. 1, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.1.305	journal	February 1970
Comment on “Experimental Characterization of Superradiance in a Single-Pass High-Gain Laser-Seeded Free-Electron Laser Amplifier” Bonifacio, R.; Casagrande, F.; Jaroszynski, D. A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.029501	journal	July 2007
Generating Single-Spike Hard X-Ray Pulses with Nonlinear Bunch Compression in Free-Electron Lasers Huang, S.; Ding, Y.; Feng, Y. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.154801	journal	October 2017
Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses Neutze, Richard; Wouts, Remco; van der Spoel, David Nature, Vol. 406, Issue 6797 https://doi.org/10.1038/35021099	journal	August 2000
Experimental Characterization of Superradiance in a Single-Pass High-Gain Laser-Seeded Free-Electron Laser Amplifier Watanabe, T.; Wang, X. J.; Murphy, J. B. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 98, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.034802	journal	January 2007
The Velocities of Light Smith, Richard L. American Journal of Physics, Vol. 38, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1976551	journal	August 1970
Femtosecond and Subfemtosecond X-Ray Pulses from a Self-Amplified Spontaneous-Emission–Based Free-Electron Laser Emma, P.; Bane, K.; Cornacchia, M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.074801	journal	February 2004
High gain oscillators: Pulse propagation and saturation Dattoli, G.; Ottaviani, P. L.; Pagnutti, S. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2435960	journal	May 2007
Single-Molecule Imaging with X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Dream or Reality? Fratalocchi, A.; Ruocco, G. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.105504	journal	March 2011

Similar Records

Superradiant amplification in a chirped-tapered x-ray free-electron laser

Journal Article · 2020 · Physical Review Accelerators and Beams · OSTI ID:1598073

Duris, J.; Zhang, Z.; MacArthur, J.; +2 more

Peculiarities of spike multimode generation of a superradiant distributed feedback laser

Journal Article · 2011 · Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.) · OSTI ID:21552624

Kocharovskaya, E R; Ginzburg, N S; Sergeev, A S

Experimental Characterization of Superradiance in a Single-Pass High-Gain Laser-Seeded Free-Electron Laser Amplifier

Journal Article · 2007 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:20861620

Watanabe, T; Wang, X J; Murphy, J B; +6 more

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

Title: Postsaturation dynamics and superluminal propagation of a superradiant spike in a free-electron laser amplifier

Citation Formats

References (45)

Similar Records

Related Subjects