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

Emulation of Two-Pass Gain in a cavity-based XFEL via Self-Seeding at LCLS

THP030
14 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Poster Presentation MC2 - Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators THP: Thursday Poster Session

Speaker

Mario Balcazar (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

This work presents an experimental study emulating a two-pass gain scenario in a cavity-based X-ray free-electron laser (CBXFEL) using a self-seeding configuration at LCLS. In this “7+7” arrangement, radiation generated by the first seven hard X-ray undulators (HXUs) is spectrally filtered by a high-resolution self-seeding crystal monochromator and used to seed a second set of seven undulators downstream. This setup mimics the regenerative amplification process expected in the CBXFEL cavity, where the seed pulse is recirculated and overlapped with a second trailing electron bunch. By systematically reducing the number of post-crystal undulators (from 13 to 5), we quantified the spectral amplification ratio by comparing the self-seeded peak signal to the SASE background. These results confirm the feasibility of seeding with the initial seven HXUs and provide a valuable benchmark for extrapolating gain in future two-bunch CBXFEL demonstration experiments.

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Authors

Aliaksei Halavanau (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Diling Zhu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Mario Balcazar (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Co-authors

Alberto Lutman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Jingyi Tang (Stanford University) Zhirong Huang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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