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Electron and photon diagnostics for plasma acceleration-based FELs
- Source :
- Journal of synchrotron radiation. 25(Pt 1)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- It is now well established that laser plasma acceleration (LPA) is an innovative and good candidate in the beam acceleration field. Relativistic beams are indeed produced up to several GeV but their quality remains to be demonstrated in the highly demanding case of free-electron lasers (FELs). Several experiments have already shown the feasibility of synchrotron radiation delivery based on LPA but free-electron lasing has still to be achieved. Since the quality of the LPA beam inside the undulator is the critical issue, any LPA-based FEL experiment requires a refined characterization of the beam properties along the transport line and of the photon beam at the undulator exit. This characterization relies on diagnostics which must be adapted to the LPA specificities. Here, the electron and photon diagnostics already used on LPAs and required for LPA-based FELs are reviewed, and the critical points are illustrated using recent experiments performed around the world.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Radiation
Photon
business.industry
Free-electron laser
Synchrotron radiation
Undulator
Plasma acceleration
Laser
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Acceleration
Optics
law
0103 physical sciences
010306 general physics
business
Instrumentation
Beam (structure)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16005775
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- Pt 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of synchrotron radiation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a973d1b6c77a2aa22ccc1eeb49026e73