A two-color dual-oscillator infrared free-electron laser
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| author | Schöllkopf, Wieland Gewinner, Sandy De Pas, Marco Junkes, Heinz Kray, Sebastian Kirstaedter, William Colson, William B. Dowell, David H. Gottschalk, Stephen C. Rathke, John W. Schultheiss, Tom J. Todd, Alan M. M. Young, Lloyd M. Behera, Akash Chandra Torres-Boy, América Y. Wolf, Martin Paarmann, Alexander von Helden, Gert Meijer, Gerard |
| author_facet | Schöllkopf, Wieland Gewinner, Sandy De Pas, Marco Junkes, Heinz Kray, Sebastian Kirstaedter, William Colson, William B. Dowell, David H. Gottschalk, Stephen C. Rathke, John W. Schultheiss, Tom J. Todd, Alan M. M. Young, Lloyd M. Behera, Akash Chandra Torres-Boy, América Y. Wolf, Martin Paarmann, Alexander von Helden, Gert Meijer, Gerard |
| contents | We report on the design and performance of a two-color dual-oscillator infrared free-electron laser (FEL). The mid-infrared (MIR) FEL at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI FEL) has been upgraded to include a second oscillator FEL beamline that permits lasing in the far-infrared (FIR) regime from 4.5 μm to 175 μm. In addition, a 500 MHz kicker cavity has been installed downstream of the electron accelerator. It allows to deflect electron bunches of up to 50 MeV energy alternately left and right by an angle of {\pm}2°. It can, thus, split the high-repetition-rate (1 GHz) electron bunch train from the accelerator into two bunch trains of 500 MHz repetition rate each; one is steered to the MIR FEL and the other one to the new FIR FEL. In this two-color mode of simultaneous, synchronized operation the wavelengths in both FELs can be tuned independently over wide ranges of up to a factor of four each by undulator-gap variation. In addition, two-color operation is also available at reduced repetition rates (e.g. 55.6 MHz of both MIR and FIR pulses), as needed for some applications. This unique two-color mode opens up a wealth of novel user applications such as, MIR-FIR pump-probe experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | A two-color dual-oscillator infrared free-electron laser Schöllkopf, Wieland Gewinner, Sandy De Pas, Marco Junkes, Heinz Kray, Sebastian Kirstaedter, William Colson, William B. Dowell, David H. Gottschalk, Stephen C. Rathke, John W. Schultheiss, Tom J. Todd, Alan M. M. Young, Lloyd M. Behera, Akash Chandra Torres-Boy, América Y. Wolf, Martin Paarmann, Alexander von Helden, Gert Meijer, Gerard Accelerator Physics Chemical Physics We report on the design and performance of a two-color dual-oscillator infrared free-electron laser (FEL). The mid-infrared (MIR) FEL at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI FEL) has been upgraded to include a second oscillator FEL beamline that permits lasing in the far-infrared (FIR) regime from 4.5 μm to 175 μm. In addition, a 500 MHz kicker cavity has been installed downstream of the electron accelerator. It allows to deflect electron bunches of up to 50 MeV energy alternately left and right by an angle of {\pm}2°. It can, thus, split the high-repetition-rate (1 GHz) electron bunch train from the accelerator into two bunch trains of 500 MHz repetition rate each; one is steered to the MIR FEL and the other one to the new FIR FEL. In this two-color mode of simultaneous, synchronized operation the wavelengths in both FELs can be tuned independently over wide ranges of up to a factor of four each by undulator-gap variation. In addition, two-color operation is also available at reduced repetition rates (e.g. 55.6 MHz of both MIR and FIR pulses), as needed for some applications. This unique two-color mode opens up a wealth of novel user applications such as, MIR-FIR pump-probe experiments. |
| title | A two-color dual-oscillator infrared free-electron laser |
| topic | Accelerator Physics Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16189 |