10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

X-ray Cavity Based XFELS

TUXN02
12 Aug 2025, 09:30
30m
Parallel Session #2 (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Parallel Session #2

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Invited Oral Presentation MC2 - Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators

Speaker

Mario Balcazar (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Cavity-based X-ray free-electron lasers present a promising path toward fully coherent, high-brightness X-ray sources with enhanced stability and spectral purity. By using Bragg-reflecting crystal cavities to recirculate and amplify an X-ray seed pulse over multiple passes, CBXFELs offer the potential for orders-of-magnitude improvements in coherence and brightness compared to single-pass FELs. This talk will present an overview of the CBXFEL concept and the proof-of-principle experiment currently under development at SLAC. Recent progress will be presented, along with ongoing efforts in beam–X-ray overlap diagnostics and cavity alignment. The talk will also address the key technical challenges ahead for CBXFELs and briefly explore alternative cavity-based XFEL designs as promising paths forward.

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Author

Mario Balcazar (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Co-authors

Alberto Lutman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Aliaksei Halavanau (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Andrew Bernhard (Argonne National Laboratory) Anne Sakdinawat (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Bart Wyderski (Euclid Techlabs (United States)) Ben Freemire (Euclid Beamlabs LLC) Chunguang Jing (Euclid Techlabs (United States)) Courtney Curtis (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Davide Bianculli (Argonne National Laboratory) Deming Shu (Argonne National Laboratory) Diling Zhu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Franz-Josef Decker (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Georg Gassner (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Giulia Lanza (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Heinz-Dieter Nuhn (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Hengzi Wang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Jayson Anton (Argonne National Laboratory) Jeremy Mock (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Jerome Hastings (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Jingyi Tang (Stanford University) Josh Stein (Osprey Distributed Control Systems LLC) Kwang-Je Kim (Argonne National Laboratory) Marek Golebiowski (Argonne National Laboratory) Maria Alessandra Montironi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Marion White (Argonne National Laboratory) Mauricio Camarena (Euclid Techlabs (United States)) Mei Bai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Namrata Balakrishnan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Nicolas Burdet (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Peifan Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Rachel Margraf-O'Neal (Argonne National Laboratory) Ryan Lindberg (Argonne National Laboratory) Sergey Antipov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Shweta Saraf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Sina Koehlenbeck (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Dr Steven Kearney (Advanced Photon Source) Takahiro Sato (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Timothy Maxwell (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Wayne Lewis (Osprey Distributed Control Systems LLC) Xavi Permanyer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Yanwei Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Yury Shvydko (Argonne National Laboratory) Zhirong Huang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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