1. Femtosecond-Terawatt Hard X Ray Pulse Generation with Chirped Pulse Amplification on a Free Electron Laser
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Li, Haoyuan, MacArthur, James, Littleton, Sean, Dunne, Mike, Huang, Zhirong, and Zhu, Diling
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Physics - Optics ,Physics - Accelerator Physics - Abstract
Advances of high intensity lasers have opened up the field of strong field physics and led to a broad range of technological applications. Recent x ray laser sources and optics development makes it possible to obtain extremely high intensity and brightness at x ray wavelengths. In this paper, we present a system design that implements chirped pulse amplification for hard x ray free electron lasers. Numerical modeling with realistic experimental parameters show that near-transform-limit single-femtosecond hard x ray laser pulses with peak power exceeding 1 TW and brightness exceeding $4\times10^{35}~$s$^{-1}$mm$^{-2}$mrad$^{-2}$0.1\%bandwdith$^{-1}$ can be consistently generated. Realization of such beam qualities is essential for establishing systematic and quantitative understanding of strong field x-ray physics and nonlinear x ray optics phenomena., Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by PRL
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- 2022
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