17–22 May 2026
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Europe/Zurich timezone

Sub-5-fs compression and synchronization of relativistic electron bunches for high-performance MeV UED at the upgraded FORTRESS beamline

SUP5617
17 May 2026, 14:00
4h
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Student Poster Presentation MC5.D09: Emittance manipulation, Bunch Compression and Cooling Student poster session

Speaker

Zhiyuan Wang (Tsinghua University)

Description

The generation of high-brightness electron beams with ultrashort duration and high temporal stability is essential for ultrafast electron diffraction (UED), which has become a powerful tool for ultrafast structural dynamics studies with high spatiotemporal resolution. However, simultaneously achieving sub-10 fs bunch duration and synchronization with pump laser remains challenging in practice. Here we report an upgrade of the FORTRESS (Facility Of Relativistic Time-Resolved Electron Sources and Scattering) beamline at Tsinghua University. By utilizing an α-magnet-based scheme and a 1.4-cell S-band photocathode gun, with optimized control of the time-of-flight (TOF)-momentum correlation and the time-momentum correlation in longitudinal phase space mainly governed by the initial chirp, a bunch duration of 3.47 fs with 4.34 fs TOF jitter characterized by THz streaking has been achieved, corresponding to a temporal precision of ~5 fs. The beamline layout, beam dynamics simulation, diagnostic methods and pump-probe UED experiments with high-performance results will be discussed.

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Author

Zhiyuan Wang (Tsinghua University)

Co-authors

Yining Yang (Tsinghua University) Peng Lv (Tsinghua University) Baiting Song (Tsinghua University) Zhuoxuan Liu (Tsinghua University) Lianmin Zheng (Tsinghua University) Yingchao Du (Tsinghua University) Wenhui Huang (Tsinghua University) Chuanxiang Tang (Tsinghua University) Renkai Li (Tsinghua University)

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