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Design considerations for table-top, laser-based VUV and X-ray free electron lasers |
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| Authors: | F Grüner S Becker U Schramm T Eichner M Fuchs R Weingartner D Habs J Meyer-ter-Vehn M Geissler M Ferrario L Serafini B van der Geer H Backe W Lauth S Reiche |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München, 85748, Garching, Germany 2. Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, 85748, Garching, Germany 3. INFN, 00044, Frascati, Italy 4. Pulsar Physics, 3762, Soest, Netherlands 5. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Mainz, Germany 6. University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Abstract: | A recent breakthrough in laser-plasma accelerators, based upon ultrashort high-intensity lasers, demonstrated the generation of quasi-monoenergetic GeV-electrons. With future Petawatt lasers ultra-high beam currents of ∼100 kA in ∼10 fs can be expected, allowing for drastic reduction in the undulator length of free-electron-lasers (FELs). We present a discussion of the key aspects of a table-top FEL design, including energy loss and chirps induced by space-charge and wakefields. These effects become important for an optimized table-top FEL operation. A first proof-of-principle VUV case is considered as well as a table-top X-ray-FEL which may also open a brilliant light source for new methods in clinical diagnostics. PACS 41.60.Cr; 52.38.Kd |
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