| Title: |
Seeded free-electron laser driven by a compact laser plasma accelerator |
| Authors: |
Labat, Marie; Cabadağ, Jurjen Couperus; Ghaith, Amin; Irman, Arie; Berlioux, Anthony; Berteaud, Philippe; Blache, Frédéric; Bock, Stefan; Bouvet, François; Briquez, Fabien; Chang, Yen-Yu; Corde, Sébastien; Debus, Alexander; de Oliveira, Carlos; Duval, Jean-Pierre; Dietrich, Yannick; El Ajjouri, Moussa; Eisenmann, Christoph; Gautier, Julien; Gebhardt, René; Grams, Simon; Helbig, Uwe; Herbeaux, Christian; Hubert, Nicolas; Kitegi, Charles; Kononenko, Olena; Kuntzsch, Michael; Laberge, Maxwell; Lê, Stéphane; Leluan, Bruno; Loulergue, Alexandre; Malka, Victor; Marteau, Fabrice; Guyen, Manh Huy N.; Oumbarek-Espinos, Driss; Pausch, Richard; Pereira, Damien; Püschel, Thomas; Ricaud, Jean-Paul; Rommeluere, Patrick; Roussel, Eléonore; Rousseau, Pascal; Schöbel, Susanne; Sebdaoui, Mourad; Steiniger, Klaus; Tavakoli, Keihan; Thaury, Cédric; Ufer, Patrick; Valléau, Mathieu; Vandenberghe, Marc; Vétéran, José; Schramm, Ulrich; Couprie, Marie-Emmanuelle |
| Contributors: |
Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR); Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA); École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA Paris); Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-École polytechnique (X); Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Texas at Austin Austin; Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 (PhLAM); Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); ANR-11-LABX-0007,CEMPI,Centre Européen pour les Mathématiques, la Physique et leurs Interactions(2011); ANR-19-CE30-0031,ULTRASYNC,Exploration et contrôle ULTRArapide de la dynamique des paquets d'électrons dans les sources de lumière SYNChrotron(2019); European Project: M-PAC; European Project: 339128,ERC-2013-ADG,ERC-2013-ADG,X-FIVE(2014); European Project: 340015,ERC-2013-ADG,ERC-2013-ADG,COXINEL(2014); European Project: 653782,H2020-INFRADEV-2014-2015,H2020-INFRADEV-1-2014-1,EuPRAXIA(2015) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1749-4885. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Nature Publishing Group |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
LillOA (HAL Lille Open Archive, Université de Lille) |
| Subject Terms: |
[PHYS]Physics [physics]; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph]; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]; [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic |
| Description: |
International audience ; Abstract Free-electron lasers generate high-brilliance coherent radiation at wavelengths spanning from the infrared to the X-ray domains. The recent development of short-wavelength seeded free-electron lasers now allows for unprecedented levels of control on longitudinal coherence, opening new scientific avenues such as ultra-fast dynamics on complex systems and X-ray nonlinear optics. Although those devices rely on state-of-the-art large-scale accelerators, advancements on laser-plasma accelerators, which harness gigavolt-per-centimetre accelerating fields, showcase a promising technology as compact drivers for free-electron lasers. Using such footprint-reduced accelerators, exponential amplification of a shot-noise type of radiation in a self-amplified spontaneous emission configuration was recently achieved. However, employing this compact approach for the delivery of temporally coherent pulses in a controlled manner has remained a major challenge. Here we present the experimental demonstration of a laser-plasma accelerator-driven free-electron laser in a seeded configuration, where control over the radiation wavelength is accomplished. Furthermore, the appearance of interference fringes, resulting from the interaction between the phase-locked emitted radiation and the seed, confirms longitudinal coherence. Building on our scientific achievements, we anticipate a navigable pathway to extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths, paving the way towards smaller-scale free-electron lasers, unique tools for a multitude of applications in industry, laboratories and universities. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//339128/EU/Fifth Generation of Ultra Bright X Ray Beam/X-FIVE; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//340015/EU/COherent Xray source INferred from Electrons accelerated by Laser/COXINEL; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//653782/EU/Proposal for a Horizon 2020 Design Study on the “European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications“ (EuPRAXIA)/EuPRAXIA |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41566-022-01104-w |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-03898039; https://hal.science/hal-03898039v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-03898039v1/file/Seeded_free-electron_laser_driven_by_a_compact_las.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01104-w |
| Rights: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.F1F99717 |
| Database: |
BASE |