FEL Design
Our goal is to develop design concepts for flexible photon beam performance, based on a number of FEL configurations, fed by a low-energy electron accelerator, that would provide experimentalists a variety of configurations, including high flux time-domain pulses of picosecond to 100 attosecond duration, and high resolution frequency-domain outputs with close to transform limited meV bandwidth.
SASE, seeded, regenerative amplifier, and oscillator techniques are being simulated and developed, using GINGER and GENESIS simulation codes. Start-to end modeling of the electron beam is critical in determining realistic FEL performance capabilities. These studies are performed in conjunction with development of beam delivery systems.
