Status and future of the soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline at the SHINE

Autor: Tao Liu, Nanshun Huang, Hanxiang Yang, Zheng Qi, Kaiqing Zhang, Zhangfeng Gao, Si Chen, Chao Feng, Wei Zhang, Hang Luo, Xiaoxi Fu, He Liu, Bart Faatz, Haixiao Deng, Bo Liu, Dong Wang, Zhentang Zhao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Physics, Vol 11 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2296-424X
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2023.1172368
Popis: The Shanghai High repetition rate XFEL and Extreme light facility (SHINE) is under construction and aims at generating X-rays between 0.4 and 25 keV with three FEL beamlines at repetition rates of up to 1 MHz. The soft X-ray FEL beamline, FEL-II, will be ready for commissioning in 2025. It is designed to cover the photon energy from 0.4 to 3 keV, in which the baselines of the FEL operation modes are self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE), self-seeding, echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG), and polarization control. Therefore, a high repetition-rate external seed laser, large period length modulator, soft X-ray monochromator, planar undulator, and elliptically polarized undulator have been adopted in the FEL-II beamline. Several potentials such as an ultra-short pulse mode and a multi-color mode are also foreseeable without significant equipment changes in the follow-up operation. A dual-period undulator design is suggested for the echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) commissioning, and it has great potential to break through the unreachable energy of the fully coherent X-ray in the future. The FEL-II beamline will deliver SASE radiation and fully coherent radiation in all the wavelengths of interest.
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