Abstract

The echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) scheme holds promising prospects for efficiently generating intense coherent radiation at very high harmonics of a conventional ultraviolet seed laser. We report the lasing of the EEHG free-electron laser (FEL) at an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength with a seeded FEL facility, the Shanghai soft x-ray FEL. For the first time, we have benchmarked the basic theory of EEHG by measuring the bunching factor distributions over one octave down to the EUV region. Our results demonstrated the key advantages of the EEHG FEL, i.e., generation of very high harmonics with a small laser-induced energy spread and insensitivity to beam imperfections, and marks a great step towards fully coherent x rays with the EEHG scheme.

Details

Title
Coherent extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser with echo-enabled harmonic generation
Author
Chao, Feng; Deng, Haixiao; Zhang, Meng; Wang, Xingtao; Chen, Si; Liu, Tao; Zhou, Kaishang; Gu, Duan; Wang, Zhen; Jiang, Zenggong; Li, Xuan; Wang, Baoliang; Zhang, Wenyan; Taihe Lan; Lie Feng; Liu, Bo; Gu, Qiang; Leng, Yongbin; Yin, Lixin; Wang, Dong; Zhao, Zhentang
Section
ARTICLES
Publication year
2019
Publication date
May 2019
Publisher
American Physical Society
e-ISSN
24699888
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2551573953
Copyright
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