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A 2 to 4 nm high power FEL on the SLAC linac

Authors :
J.T. Seeman
Heinz Dieter Nuhn
P. Morton
Klaus Halbach
Claudio Pellegrini
Janos Kirz
Kwang-Je Kim
Herman Winick
Roman Tatchyn
Karl Bane
Tor Raubenheimer
Piero Pianetta
James Rosenzweig
Source :
Pellegrini, C.; Rosenzweig, J.; Nuhn, H.-D.; Pianetta, P.; Tatchyn, R.; Winick, H.; et al.(1992). A 2 to 4 nm High Power FEL on the SLAC Linac. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6gh2f4nn
Publication Year :
1993
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 1993.

Abstract

We report the results of preliminary studies of a 2 to 4 nm SASE FEL, using a photoinjector to produce the electron beam, and the SLAC linac to accelerate it to an energy up to 10 GeV. Longitudinal bunch compression is used to increase ten fold the peak current to 2.5 kA, while reducing the bunch length to the subpicosecond range. The saturated output power is in the multi-gigawatt range, producing about 1014 coherent photons within a bandwidth of about 0.2% rms, in a pulse of several millijoules. At 120 Hz repetition rate the average power is about 1 W. The system is optimized for X-ray microscopy in the water window around 2 to 4 nm, and will permit imaging a biological sample in a single subpicosecond pulse.

Details

ISSN :
01689002
Volume :
331
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....42f4dd12db1b5d649365f7604a5a4a94