Mitigation of the microbunching instability through transverse Landau damping

Autor: A. D. Brynes, G. Perosa, C.-Y. Tsai, E. Allaria, L. Badano, G. De Ninno, E. Ferrari, D. Garzella, L. Giannessi, G. Penco, P. Rebernik Ribič, E. Roussel, S. Spampinati, C. Spezzani, M. Trovò, M. Veronese, S. Di Mitri
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol 27, Iss 7, p 074402 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2469-9888
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.27.074402
Popis: The microbunching instability has been a long-standing issue for high-brightness free-electron lasers (FELs) and is a significant showstopper to achieve full longitudinal coherence in the x-ray regime. This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of microbunching instability mitigation through transverse Landau damping, based on linear optics control in a dispersive region. Analytical predictions for the microbunching content are supported by numerical calculations of the instability gain. The effect is confirmed through the experimental characterization of the spectral brightness of the FERMI FEL under different transverse optics configurations of the transfer line between the linear accelerator and the FEL.
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