A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam

E Prat, R Abela, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex, Y Arbelo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that
recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. SwissFEL is a very …

Status and future of the soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline at the SHINE

T Liu, N Huang, H Yang, Z Qi, K Zhang, Z Gao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Shanghai High repetition rate XFEL and Extreme light facility (SHINE) is under
construction and aims at generating X-rays between 0.4 and 25 keV with three FEL …

Self-synchronized and cost-effective time-resolved measurements at x-ray free-electron lasers with femtosecond resolution

P Dijkstal, A Malyzhenkov, P Craievich, E Ferrari… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), with pulse durations of a few tens of femtoseconds or
shorter, are cutting-edge instruments capable of observing structure and dynamics at the …

Single-and two-color attosecond hard x-ray free-electron laser pulses with nonlinear compression

A Malyzhenkov, YP Arbelo, P Craievich, P Dijkstal… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We report on the generation of one-and two-color attosecond hard x-ray pulses at SwissFEL
by appropriately tailoring the nonlinear compression of the electron beam. For achieving …

Widely tunable two-color x-ray free-electron laser pulses

E Prat, P Dijkstal, E Ferrari, R Ganter, P Juranić… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate the generation of widely tunable two-color x-ray free-electron laser (FEL)
pulses at SwissFEL. In a split-undulator configuration, each color is produced in a different …

Frequency and spatially chirped free-electron laser pulses

S Reiche, C Bacellar, P Bougiatioti, C Cirelli… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We have produced hard x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) pulses, which are chirped both in
photon energy and in spatial position. The experiments have been carried out at the hard x …

Generation of time-synchronized two-color X-ray free-electron laser pulses using phase shifters

MH Cho, T Kang, H Yang, G Kim, SH Kwon… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
To optimize the intensity of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), phase shifters, oriented in
phase with the phases of the XFEL pulse and electron beam, are typically installed at …

A perfect X-ray beam splitter and its applications to time-domain interferometry and quantum optics exploiting free-electron lasers

S Reiche, G Knopp, B Pedrini, E Prat… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) deliver ultrabright X-ray pulses, but not the sequences of
phase-coherent pulses required for time-domain interferometry and control of quantum …

Two-color operation of a soft x-ray FEL with alternation of undulator tunes

E Schneidmiller, IJ Bermudez Macias, M Beye… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
FLASH is the first soft X-ray FEL user facility, routinely providing brilliant photon beams for
users since 2005. The second undulator branch of this facility, FLASH2, is gap-tunable …

Experimental demonstration of two-color x-ray free-electron-laser pulses via wakefield excitation

S Bettoni, P Craievich, A Dax, R Ganter, MW Guetg… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2021 - APS
Several beam manipulation methods have been studied and experimentally demonstrated
to generate x-ray multipulses in free-electron-laser (FEL) facilities, advancing the fields of …