Beam Science with LaserNetUS & Other User Facilities

11:30 am – 1:54 pm, Wednesday March 19 // Session MAR-M45 //Anaheim Convention Center, 263A (Level 2)

Chair:: Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Sponsored by: DLS
DPB

Demonstration of reliable laser-plasma accelerator driven free electron laser in the SASE regime

1:18 pm – 1:30 pm

Presenter: Kyle Jensen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Authors: Christopher Doss (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Finn Kohrell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Curtis Berger (Lawence Berkeley National Laboratory), Anthony Gonsalves (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Kei Nakamura (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Guillaume Plateau (Tau Systems), Reinier van Mourik (Tau Systems), Stephen Milton (TAU Systems, Inc), Carl Schroeder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Eric Esarey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Samuel Barber (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jeroen Van Tilborg (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) are fourth-generation light sources that deliver ultra-bright, coherent X-ray pulses that serve a diverse scientific user community. XFELs require high-brightness, multi-GeV electrons that generally require km-scale conventional accelerators at billion-dollar facilities. Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) provide a promising alternative to conventional accelerator infrastructure due to their orders-of-magnitude higher accelerating gradients (10-100 GV/m), enabling the production of high-brightness, relativistic electron beams in cm-scale distances. While critical work remains to push the stability and quality of LPA electron beams towards their conventionally accelerated counterparts, major milestones in LPA-based FEL development have been demonstrated in recent years. We present recent progress at the BELLA Center's Hundred Terawatt Undulator beamline demonstrating reliable FEL operation in the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) regime.

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