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

Tunable Terawatt Attosecond Soft‑X‑Ray Pulse Pair from a Plasma Wakefield Driven Free Electron Laser

THP090
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

Xuan Zhang (Stony Brook University)

Description

Attosecond X-ray pulses are a pioneering tools for real-time observation of ultrafast electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules, opening up revolutionary advances in chemistry, materials science, and condensed-matter physics. Existing attosecond sources are, however, constrained by low photon energy and flux, which limits their experimental applications. we present here start-to-end simulations of a compact soft-X-ray FEL, taking advantage of attosecond electron beam generated from PWFA to provide terawatt-level peak power in pulses of merely tens of attoseconds duration. High-brightness electrons produced in PWFA are longitudinally compressed in a magnetic arc and then injected into an undulator. By tuning the undulator taper, two isolated spikes of radiation—each tens of attosecond duration and terawatt peak power are generated for inherent pump–probe application with tunable delays. Such an ultraintense, ultrashort source offers a direct route to table-top X-ray light sources and facilitates attosecond-resolution experiments with unprecedented intensity and time resolution.

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Authors

Xuan Zhang (Stony Brook University) Jiayang Yan (Stony Brook University) Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University) Vladimir Litvinenko (Stony Brook University) Gang Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Yichao Jing (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Claudio Emma (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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