Speaker
Description
The CXFEL is designed to produce attosecond-femtosecond pulses of soft X-rays in the range 300-2500 eV using nanobunched electron beams and a very high power laser undulator. The project includes 5 X-ray endstations with applications in biology, quantum materials, and AMO science. The CXFEL Project overall includes both the CXFEL and the nonlasing hard X-ray CXLS that is described elsewhere in these proceedings. The CXFEL has recently completed a 3-year design phase and received NSF funding in March 2023 for construction over the next 5 years. Both CXFEL and CXLS instruments use recently developed X-band distributed-coupling, room-temperature, standing-wave linacs and photoinjectors operating at 1 kHz repetition rates and 9300 MHz RF frequency. They rely on recently developed Yb-based lasers operating at high peak and average power to produce fs pulses of 1030 nm light at 1 kHz repetition rate with pulse energy up to 400 mJ. We present the design and initial construction activities of the large collaborative effort to develop the fully coherent CXFEL.
Funding Agency
This work supported by the NSF Bio Directorate under midscale RI-2 award #2153503
Footnotes
*For the CXFEL collaboration
| Region represented | North America |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
