Jörn Bödewadt Recent Results of Seeding at FLASH Supported by BMBF under contract 05K13GU4 and 05K13PE3 DFG GrK 1355 Joachim Herz Stiftung Helmholtz Accelererator R&D > FEL Seeding > Experimental setup at FLASH > Recent results 6 th International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2015, Richmond VA

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 2 Free-electron lasers > Electron LINAC:  relativistic e-beam, high peak-current, small emittance and energy spread > Undulator: FEL process creates ultra-intense X-ray beams  ultra-short pulses, high degree of coherence > FEL seeding:

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 3 Why would FEL users want seeding? PropertiesBeneficial for: o Fully synchronized with optical laser  All pump-probe experiments using second laser o Close to Fourier limited pulses  All pump-probe experiment  Nonlinear light-matter interaction o Small bandwidth with high pulse energy  Resonant excitation  High resolution spectroscopy o Less fluctuations in  Photon energy  Resonant excitation  All spectroscope experiments  Spectral shape  Resonant excitation  All spectroscope experiments  Pulse energy  Nonlinear light-matter interaction  All spectroscopy experiments o Full coherence  Nonlinear spectroscopy

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 4 Statistical fluctuations of spectrum with SASE

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 5 Timing fluctuations with two lasers Seeded Soft X-ray FEL facility

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 6 Seeding experiment at FLASH FLASH1 FLASH2 Seed laser lab Diagnostic lab Undulators Seed laser Experiment NIR beamline FLASH tunnel

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 7 Seeding experiment at FLASH - sFLASH > Installed during FLASH upgrade in 2010 > First demonstration of direct HHG seeding at 38 nm (2012) > No operation in 2013 (FLASH2 upgrade) > Since 2014 preparation of HGHG FLASH1 beamline 266 nm seed beam S. Ackermann et al., PRL 111, (2013)

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 8 H igh -G ain H armonic G eneration UV laser e - beam D. Xiang et al., PR-STAB 16, (2013)

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 9 H igh -G ain H armonic G eneration UV laser e - beam D. Xiang et al., PR-STAB 16, (2013)

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 10 Seed laser system > Driver system:  Ti:sapphire 800 nm, 10 Hz, <50 mJ max pulse energy (5 mJ used for UV) > Third harmonic generation in crystals UV beam on YAG screen at the focus Max. available pulse energy in the UV ~ 280 µJ

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 11 Seed laser system > Driver system:  Ti:sapphire 800 nm, 10 Hz, <50 mJ max pulse energy (5 mJ used for UV) > Third harmonic generation in crystals UV beam on YAG screen at the focus Max. available pulse energy in the UV ~ 280 µJ

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 12 Laser-electron overlap energy modulation observed with LOLA Comparison with simulation allows a characterization of the modulation amplitude (thanks to C. Behrens) Measurement modulation by UV laser

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 13 Characterization of induced energy modulation UV induced energy modulation observed with LOLA Comparison with simulation allow a characterization of the modulation amplitude MeasurementSimulation ATTENTION! Effects of longitudinal space charge (LSC) will change the modulation along the drift and needs to be taken into account!

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 14 Electron parameters > Operation of LINAC for moderate compression Simulated long. phase-space

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 15 Electron parameters > Operation of LINAC for moderate compression

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 16 Electron parameters > Operation of LINAC for moderate compression Measurement of longitudinal phase-space distribution Current profile

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 17 Energy spread blow-up due to LSC Seed laser offSeed laser on

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 18 Energy spread blow-up due to LSC > After compression to 600 A peak current Seed laser offSeed laser on

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 19 FEL gain 38nm (7 th harmonic) > FEL pulse energy Seed laser off Seed laser on

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 20 FEL gain 38nm (7 th harmonic) > FEL beam profile Seed laser off Seed laser on

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 21 FEL gain 38nm (7 th harmonic) > Spectra of HGHG and SASE SASE x1000

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 22 > Prepared seeding experiment at FLASH for HGHG operation > Laser-electron overlap commissioned and characterized with TDS > Recently first operation of HGHG with peak current of 600 A Summary Seed laser off Seed laser on

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 23 Outlook > Proceed with HGHG operation and characterization till end of 2015  Improve stability  Investigate higher harmonics (> 7th)  Stronger e-bunch compression (> 1 kA) > Upgrade of seed laser system to improve stability and prepare for Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation operation > Temporal characterization of seeded FEL pulses

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 24 Single shot temporal diagnostic of seeded FEL pulses > Mapping time to energy by the “THz streaking” method > Achievements:  Commissioning of hardware  THz generation: 2.5µJ per pulse  Temporal overlap (THz, NIR with XUV) set with 50ps precision Overlap THz-XUV in noble gas

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 25 > On behalf of the FLASH seeding team Thank you for your attention Ph. Amstutz A. Azima M. Drescher C. Lechner Th. Maltezopoulos V. Miltchev T. Plath J. Rossbach S. Ackermann R. Aßmann J. Bödewadt N. Ekanayake B. Faatz I. Hartl T. Laarmann L. Lazzarino F. Mayet K. Hacker S. Khan R. Molo Posters during IPAC 2015: T. Plath et al., “Optics Compensation for Variable-Gap Undulator Systems at FLASH”, TUPWA038 J. Boedewadt et al., “Simulation of optical transport beamlines for high-quality optical beams for accelerator applications”, TUPWA026

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 26 Back-up slides

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 27 Beam optics in seed section > Goal:  Beam based alignment of seeding section  CHG at 7 th harmonic > Achievements:  Using ballistic orbit and quadrupole scans, we identified misaligned quads between modulator and radiator Mod Rad1 Rad4

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 28 Seed injection system NIR Beam <5 mJ ~120 fs (FWHM) Tripler THG spectrum

Jörn Bödewadt | Seeding at FLASH | | Page 29 UV laser Optics compensation rms vert. beam size [µm] position along the FLASH undulator Initial situation After closing undulator After applying optics correction Courtesy Philipp Amstutz > Compensate effect of vertical undulator focusing for closed variable-gap undulators