| Autor: |
Andreas Hoffmann, James Good, Matthias Gross, Mikhail Krasilnikov, Frank Stephan |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Photonics, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 6 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2304-6732 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/photonics11010006 |
| Popis: |
A key issue of X-ray free-electron lasers is the quality of the photoelectron beams generated from a photocathode by laser pulses in the high-gradient RF gun. Controlling the shape of these laser pulses can strongly reduce the transverse emittance of the generated electron bunch. For this purpose, a laser pulseshaper at 515 nm is presented that can be used directly with alkali antimonide photocathodes for photoemission. The first results regarding generation and measurement of flattop and parabolic pulses as well as introduction of modulations for THz generation are presented and show the potential for emittance optimization with 3D ellipsoidal pulses with the proposed pulseshaper. The experiments are carried out for Cs2Te photocathodes, which require second harmonic generation of the shaped pulses and thus allow investigation of pulseshape preservation in nonlinear frequency conversion processes. |
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