Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 5, December 2011
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Article Number | 54004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/54004 | |
Published online | 24 November 2011 |
Cavity resonator free electron lasers as a source of stable attosecond pulses
1
SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde - Glasgow, UK, EU
2
ASTeC, STFC Daresbury Laboratory and Cockcroft Institute - Warrington WA4 4AD, UK, EU
Received:
23
June
2011
Accepted:
13
October
2011
High-gain Free Electron Laser amplifiers are a potential source of single X-ray attosecond pulses and Attosecond Pulse Trains. Single-pulse output from short electron bunches is prone to significant power and arrival-time fluctuations. A Mode Locked Optical Klystron configuration of the FEL amplifier predicts generation of a frequency comb that may be locked to give APT output. In this paper it is shown using numerical simulations that a low feedback (so-called Regenerative Amplifier) FEL cavity resonator configuration can significantly improve output stability for single-pulse operation. The MLOK configuration may also be used in a cavity resonator to generate a frequency comb with spacing much greater than those of the axial cavity modes. As with the MLOK amplifier case, these modes can lock to generate a stable pulse train, each of a few optical cycles.
PACS: 41.60.Cr – Free-electron lasers / 42.55.Vc – X- and γ-ray lasers / 42.65.Re – Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression
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