28 July 2020 to 6 August 2020
virtual conference
Europe/Prague timezone

New generation of compact XFEL, based on the laser wake-field acceleration: current development and future perspectives

30 Jul 2020, 11:10
20m
virtual conference

virtual conference

Talk 11. Accelerator: Physics, Performance, and R&D for Future Facilities Accelerator: Physics, Performance, and R&D for Future Facilities

Speaker

Alexander Molodozhentsev (ELI-Beamlines)

Description

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) allows producing a few GeV electron beams in a plasma channel with a length of few cm with unique parameters such as bunch length of a few fsec and the bunch charge up to 100 pC. With the constant improvement of the electron beam parameters, in particular, the energy spread and the emittance of the electron beam, LWFA can to be considered as a candidate for next generation of the soft and hard X-ray free-electron laser (X-FEL). ELI-Beamlines research centre, located near Prague (Czech Republic) is an international user facility for fundamental and applied research using ultra-intense lasers and ultra-short high-energy electron and proton beams. Combination of new laser development with better understanding and control of LWFA opens the way to develop at ELI-Beamlines a new generation of XFEL, based on the revolutionary laser technology and latest achievements in existing “linac-based” XFEL facilities. In the frame of this report, we overview the laser-driven FEL research program at ELI-Beamlines and discuss a possible extension of this research program to the hard X-ray laser-driven compact FEL.

Primary authors

Alexander Molodozhentsev (ELI-Beamlines) Dr Konstantin Kruchinin (ELI-Beamlines) Dr Green Tyler (ELI-Beamlines) Dr Gabriele Grittani (ELI-Beamlines) Mr Dariusz Kocon (ELI-Beamlines) Dr Michal Nevrkla (ELI-Beamlines) Mr Sebastian Niekrasz (ELI-Beamlines) Prof. Sergey Bulanov (ELI-Beamlines) Dr Georg Korn (ELI-Beamlines)

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