Highly coherent and stable pulses from the FERMI seeded free-electron laser in the extreme ultraviolet

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作者
Allaria, E. [1 ]
Appio, R. [1 ,2 ]
Badano, L. [1 ]
Barletta, W. A. [1 ,13 ]
Bassanese, S. [1 ]
Biedron, S. G. [1 ,10 ]
Borga, A. [1 ,3 ]
Busetto, E. [1 ]
Castronovo, D. [1 ]
Cinquegrana, P. [1 ]
Cleva, S. [1 ]
Cocco, D. [1 ,4 ]
Cornacchia, M. [1 ]
Craievich, P. [1 ,5 ]
Cudin, I. [1 ]
D'Auria, G. [1 ]
Dal Forno, M. [6 ]
Danailov, M. B. [1 ]
De Monte, R. [1 ]
De Ninno, G. [1 ,7 ]
Delgiusto, P. [1 ]
Demidovich, A. [1 ]
Di Mitri, S. [1 ]
Diviacco, B. [1 ]
Fabris, A. [1 ]
Fabris, R. [1 ]
Fawley, W. [1 ]
Ferianis, M. [1 ]
Ferrari, E. [1 ]
Ferry, S. [1 ,8 ]
Froehlich, L. [1 ]
Furlan, P. [1 ]
Gaio, G. [1 ]
Gelmetti, F. [1 ]
Giannessi, L. [1 ,9 ]
Giannini, M. [1 ]
Gobessi, R. [1 ]
Ivanov, R. [1 ]
Karantzoulis, E. [1 ]
Lonza, M. [1 ]
Lutman, A. [1 ,4 ,6 ]
Mahieu, B. [1 ,7 ,8 ]
Milloch, M. [1 ]
Milton, S. V. [1 ,10 ]
Musardo, M. [1 ]
Nikolov, I. [1 ]
Noe, S. [1 ,6 ]
Parmigiani, F. [1 ,14 ]
Penco, G. [1 ]
Petronio, M. [1 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA Interesse Nazl, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
[2] Lund Univ, MAX IV Lab, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[3] NIKHEF H, Dept Elect Technol, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[5] Paul Scherrer Inst, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
[6] Univ Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[7] Nova Gorica Univ, Lab Quantum Opt, SI-5000 Rozna Dolina, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
[8] Ctr Etud Saclay, Serv Photons Atomes & Mol, Commissariat Energie Atom, F-1191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[9] ENEA CR Frascati, Theory Grp, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[10] Colorado State Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[11] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dept Phys, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[12] IOM CNR, Lab TASC, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
[13] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] Univ Trieste, Dept Phys, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS-EMISSION; HARMONIC-GENERATION; 3-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; STIMULATED-EMISSION; GAIN; RADIATION; OPERATION; INTENSE; FEL;
D O I
10.1038/NPHOTON.2012.233
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Free-electron lasers (FELs) are promising devices for generating light with laser-like properties in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray spectral regions. Recently, FELs based on the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mechanism have allowed major breakthroughs in diffraction and spectroscopy applications, despite the relatively large shot-to-shot intensity and photon-energy fluctuations and the limited longitudinal coherence inherent in the SASE mechanism. Here, we report results on the initial performance of the FERMI seeded FEL, based on the high-gain harmonic generation configuration, in which an external laser is used to initiate the emission process. Emission from the FERMI FEL-1 source occurs in the form of pulses carrying energy of several tens of microjoules per pulse and tunable throughout the 65 to 20 nm wavelength range, with unprecedented shot-to-shot wavelength stability, low-intensity fluctuations, close to transform-limited bandwidth, transverse and longitudinal coherence and full control of polarization.
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页码:699 / 704
页数:6
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