Abstract
The French project of a fourth generation light source, ARC-EN-CIEL (Accelerator-Radiation Complex for Enhanced Coherent Intense Extended Light), is a unique facility providing the user community with coherent femtosecond light pulses covering the UV, VUV and soft X ray spectral range. It is based on a CW 1 GeV superconducting linear accelerator delivering high charge, subpicosecond, low emittance electron bunches with high repetition rate (1 kHz), and adjustable polarisation until 1 keV. In addition to the High Gain Harmonic Generation (HGHG) experiment seeded with High Harmonics in Gases (HHG), allowing radiation down to 0.8 nm to be produced, two beam loops are foreseen to increase the beam current in using the energy recovery technique. They will accommodate fs synchrotron radiation sources in the IR, VUV and X ray ranges together with a FEL oscillator in the 10 nm range. Moreover, an important synergy is expected between accelerator and laser communities. Indeed, electron plasma acceleration will be tested and hard X ray femtosecond radiations will be produced by Thomson Scattering. The first phase of the project, ARC-ENCIEL phase 1, is now under study. A general overview will be given.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 591703 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-15 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 5917 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2005 |
| Event | Fourth Generation X-Ray Sources and Optics III - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 3 Aug 2005 → 4 Aug 2005 |
Keywords
- Free Electron Laser
- High Harmonics in Gas
- Linac based FEL
- Seeding