Experimental demonstration of fresh bunch self-seeding in an X-ray free electron laser
Abstract
Here, we report the generation of ultrahigh brightness X-ray pulses using the Fresh Bunch Self-Seeding (FBSS) method in an X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). The FBSS method uses two different electron slices or bunches, one to generate the seed and the other to amplify it after the monochromator. This method circumvents the trade-off between the seed power and electron slice energy spread, which limits the efficiency of regular self-seeded FELs. The experiment, the performance of which is limited by existing hardware, shows FBSS feasibility, generating 5.5 keV photon pulses which are 9 fs long and of 7.3 ×10–5 bandwidth and 50 GW power. FBSS performance is compared with Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission/self-seeding performance, measuring a brightness increase of twelve/two times, respectively. In an optimized XFEL, FBSS can increase the peak power a hundred times more than state-of-the-art to multi-TW, opening new research areas for nonlinear science and single molecule imaging.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1351977
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1361818; OSTI ID: 1368378
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; SC0009983
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 110; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Emma, C., Lutman, A., Guetg, M. W., Krzywinski, J., Marinelli, A., Wu, J., and Pellegrini, C. Experimental demonstration of fresh bunch self-seeding in an X-ray free electron laser. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4980092.
Emma, C., Lutman, A., Guetg, M. W., Krzywinski, J., Marinelli, A., Wu, J., & Pellegrini, C. Experimental demonstration of fresh bunch self-seeding in an X-ray free electron laser. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4980092
Emma, C., Lutman, A., Guetg, M. W., Krzywinski, J., Marinelli, A., Wu, J., and Pellegrini, C. Mon .
"Experimental demonstration of fresh bunch self-seeding in an X-ray free electron laser". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4980092. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1351977.
@article{osti_1351977,
title = {Experimental demonstration of fresh bunch self-seeding in an X-ray free electron laser},
author = {Emma, C. and Lutman, A. and Guetg, M. W. and Krzywinski, J. and Marinelli, A. and Wu, J. and Pellegrini, C.},
abstractNote = {Here, we report the generation of ultrahigh brightness X-ray pulses using the Fresh Bunch Self-Seeding (FBSS) method in an X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). The FBSS method uses two different electron slices or bunches, one to generate the seed and the other to amplify it after the monochromator. This method circumvents the trade-off between the seed power and electron slice energy spread, which limits the efficiency of regular self-seeded FELs. The experiment, the performance of which is limited by existing hardware, shows FBSS feasibility, generating 5.5 keV photon pulses which are 9 fs long and of 7.3 ×10–5 bandwidth and 50 GW power. FBSS performance is compared with Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission/self-seeding performance, measuring a brightness increase of twelve/two times, respectively. In an optimized XFEL, FBSS can increase the peak power a hundred times more than state-of-the-art to multi-TW, opening new research areas for nonlinear science and single molecule imaging.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4980092},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 110,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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