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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4980092
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- U.S. DOE Office of Science [DE-SC0009983, DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0009983] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We report the generation of ultrahigh brightness X-ray pulses using the Fresh Bunch Self-Seeding (FBSS) method in an X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). The FBSS method uses two different electron slices or bunches, one to generate the seed and the other to amplify it after the monochromator. This method circumvents the trade-off between the seed power and electron slice energy spread, which limits the efficiency of regular self-seeded FELs. The experiment, the performance of which is limited by existing hardware, shows FBSS feasibility, generating 5.5 keV photon pulses which are 9 fs long and of 7.3 x 10(-5) bandwidth and 50GW power. FBSS performance is compared with Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission/self-seeding performance, measuring a brightness increase of twelve/two times, respectively. In an optimized XFEL, FBSS can increase the peak power a hundred times more than state-of-the-art to multi-TW, opening new research areas for nonlinear science and single molecule imaging. Published by AIP Publishing.
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