Speaker
Dr
Aliaksei Halavanau
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Description
The X-ray Laser Oscillator (XLO) uses LCLS pulses to pump population inversion in solid copper and lase on the K alpha line, producing fully coherent, transform limit X-ray pulses, opening new avenues for experiments in fields such as inelastic X-ray scattering, parametric down-conversion, quantum science, X-ray interferometry, and coherent imaging. An important component of XLO is a bow-tie cavity to recirculate the X-ray pulses, using Si or diamond crystals as mirrors in a Bragg configuration. In this proceeding, we report on the XLO optical cavity design and initial measurements, including intracavity focusing, mirrors and lenses alignment. We present and discuss a comparison between the numerical simulations and experimental data.
| Region represented | North America |
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Primary author
Dr
Aliaksei Halavanau
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Co-authors
Andy Aquila
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Claudio Pellegrini
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Margaret Doyle
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Mengning Liang
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Nathan Majernik
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Noah Welke
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Pratik Manwani
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Uwe Bergmann
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
