HRS Program FLS2010 Workshop March 4 th , 2010 HHG based Seed Generation for X-FELs Franz X. Kärtner, William S. Graves and David E. Moncton and WIFEL Team Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
HHG based Seed Generation for X-FELs. Franz X. Kärtner, William S. Graves and David E. Moncton and WIFEL Team Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA. Acknowledgement. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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HRS Program
FLS2010 WorkshopMarch 4th, 2010
HHG based Seed Generation for X-FELs
Franz X. Kärtner, William S. Graves and David E. Monctonand WIFEL Team
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
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Acknowledgement
Students:
Ch.-J. Lai, A. Benedick, S.-W. Huang, S. BhardwajA. Siddiqui, V. GkortsasB. Putnam, Li-Jin Chen
Research Scientists: K.-H. Hong, J. Moses
Postdocs and Visitors:
G. Cirmi (Politecnico Milano, Rocca Foundation)
A. Gordon (Technion, Israel)O. Muecke (Techn. Univ. Vienna)E. Falcao (Pernambuco, Brazil)
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Outline Required Seed Power Levels
Single Pass Efficiencies in High Harmonic Generation
Wavelength Scaling of HHG
Seed Generation for High Repetition Rate FELS
A High Average Power HHG Source for 13.5 nmpumped by 515 nm Lasers (SHG of 1030nm), where powerful Yb-doped lasers exist
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Required Seed Power Levels
Direct Seeding: 100 kW (30fs) 3 nJ
Seeding for HGHG: 100 MW (30fs) 3 µJ
Push direct seed wavelength as short as possible. How does efficiency scale?
E. L. Falcão et al., Opt. Expr. 17, 11217 (June, 2009).
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HHG Efficiency into Single Harmonic
800-nm (Xe)
400-nm driver (He)
• Conversion efficiency very sensitive to drive wavelength and interaction parameters
800-nm driver (He)
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Experimental HHG Setup
800-nm Ti:S amplifier(1 kHz, 7 mJ)
HHG chamber
Telescope &Beam delivery
Beam input port
Beam transport
Pulsed nozzle
Soft-X-ray spectrometer
• Pulse energy of 0.94 mJ for all gases• Peak intensity: ~7.8x1014 W/cm2 (estimation)• Nozzle length: 2 mm
HHG spectra generated by 400-nm driver
Ar: 0.05 mbarNe: 0.3 mbarHe: 1 bar
Ar: 0.05 barNe: 0.3 barHe: 1 bar
Total HHG efficiency from 400-nm driver
• Conversion efficiency of up to 2x10-4 from He over Al window• “Good” agreement to analytic theory [1]
E. L. Falcão-Filho et al., Opt. Express 17, 11217 (June, 2009).
Efficiency per harmonic from 400-nm driver
• 8x10-5 at ~35 eV and 1x10-5 at ~60 eV for He• 6x10-5 at ~27 eV for Ar
Peak intensity: ~1.6x1015 W/cm2
40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1100
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HHG spectra generated from 800-nm driver
He: 1 barEnergy: 2 mJ
Ne: 0.3 barEnergy: 2 mJ
Total HHG efficiency from 800-nm driver
• Conversion efficiency of up to 2x10-6 from He over Al and Zr window• Efficiency per harmonic is one-to-two-order-of-magnitudes lower.
Zr window(60-100 eV)
Al window(20-70 eV)
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Comparison with previous results
800-nm driver (He)
400-nm driver (He)
• Conversion efficiency very sensitive to the driving wavelength • But predictable from our analytic theory that has shown a good agreement to experimental results studied by 400-nm and 800-nm drivers.
In final OPA stage:• Yb:YAG pump replaces Nd:YLF• BBO replaces MgO:PPSLT
First demonstration of cavity operation is carried out with CW laser. Also, axicon coupling optics excluded. Instead, collimated beam is used allowing measurement of intrinsic suppression of higher modes.
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Cavity Results With One Patterned Mirror
Pellicle (loss<1%)
CCD
R = 91% or 99%R = 99%
First cavity experiments done with single patterned mirror
Asymmetric modes seen, showing general structure of desired modes, but differing transverse profiles
Transverse profiles at cavity center
R=91%
R=99%
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~30 modes with <1% loss
only 2 modes (superposition modes in each direction) with <1% loss, next
higher mode >5% loss
Cavity Results With One Patterned MirrorL
oss
Mode
One Patterned Mirror
Lo
ss
Mode
Two Patterned Mirrors
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Thank You
Needs large average power Yb-doped Lasers!
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Analytical Bessel-Gauss Form of ModesThe cavity modes have been analyzed numerically with custom paraxial wave optics software package. They can also be understood from an analytical perspective as Bessel-Gauss beams.
Bessel-Gauss beam is a superposition of tilted Gaussian beams with wavevectors lying along the surface of a cone,
Tilted Gaussian Beam
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Analytical Bessel-Gauss Form of ModesBessel-Gauss beams traversing paraxial optical systems transform with an ABCD matrix similar to a Gaussian beam. Bessel-Gauss beams can then be shown to be modes of the confocal resonator, and the dominant modes of our special cavity.
Bessel-Gauss Modified Bessel-Gauss
Numerically computed mode
Analytical Bessel-Gauss mode
Field profile at focus: numerical versus analytical
solution
Pump laser upgrade > 50 mJ, 2 kHz, 10 ps
(c) Yb:YAG 4-pass amplifier
fs, Yb-fiber oscillator
CFBG stretcher
/4F1029
PBS
1 mW 400 ps
/4
/2
FI
Te
les
co
pe
30-mW Yb-fiber preamplifier (1030
nm)
>40 W
Yb:YAG crystal
PCTFP
(b) Yb:YAG regenerative amplifier
TFP
FI
seedRegen output5 mJ@2 kHz
Fiber-coupled LD
/4
Te
les
co
pe
(a) Fiber seed
>60 mJ@2 kHz
Telescope
10 ps, >50 mJ@2 kHz
(d) Multi-layer dielectric grating compressor
LN2 Dewar Yb:YAG crystals
Fiber-coupled pump laser
DM
/4
DML1 L2 L2 L1
TelescopeTFP
TFP
Telescope
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SummarykW-class cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG ps-lasers are ideal for
Inverse Compton Scattering Sources (direct use) -> 2nd generation synchrotron like laboratory sources with exceptional beam properties
micron sized source ideal for phase contrast imaging
fs-pulse durations ideal for time resolved x-ray diffraction
Pumping of few cycle OPCPAs covering the visible to MID IR range
Analytic HHG efficiency formulas and wavelength scaling
Development of few-cycle 2-m OPCPA (200 J)
Initial results on 800 nm OPCPA
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(a) For a 5-cycle-driver-pulse, k = 0, L = 5 mm at 1 bar.
(b) Same as (a) including plasma and neutral atom phase mismatching.
Efficiency Measurement using Calibrated XUV PhotodiodeAt 40eV, Al transmission = 30%,