A fully coherent free electron laser (FEL) seeded with a higher-order harmonic (HH) pulse from high-order harmonic generation (HHG) is successfully operated for a sufficiently prolonged time in pilot user experiments by using a timing drift feedback. For HHG-seeded FELs, the seeding laser pulses have to be synchronized with electron bunches. Despite seeded FELs being non-chaotic light sources in principle, external laser-seeded FELs are often unstable in practice because of a timing jitter and a drift between the seeding laser pulses and the accelerated electron bunches. Accordingly, we constructed a relative arrival-timing monitor based on non-invasive electro-optic sampling (EOS). The EOS monitor made uninterrupted shot-to-shot monitoring possible even during the seeded FEL operation. The EOS system was then used for arrival-timing feedback with an adjustability of 100 fs for continual operation of the HHG-seeded FEL. Using the EOS-based beam drift controlling system, the HHG-seeded FEL was operated over half a day with an effective hit rate of 20%–30%. The output pulse energy was 20 mJ at the 61.2 nm wavelength. Towards seeded FELs in the water window region, we investigated our upgrade plan to seed high-power FELs with HH photon energy of 30–100 eV and lase at shorter wavelengths of up to 2 nm through high-gain harmonic generation (HGHG) at the energy-upgraded SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) accelerator. We studied a benefit as well as the feasibility of the next HHG-seeded FEL machine with single-stage HGHG with tunability of a lasing wavelength.

提出了双电子H+3体系的一维计算模型。 采用对称分裂算符法计算波函数的时间演化, 数值模拟了在800 nm波长激光脉冲作用下体系的高次谐波(HHG)谱性质。 通过哈密顿算符中的电子相互作用项研究了电子间互作用对HHG谱的作用, 结果发现电子间的相互作用对HHG谱性质的影响不大, 但是会对截止频率有一定影响; 还模拟了体系在不同核间距下的HHG谱的截止频率, 发现较大的核间距的截止频率大于半经典三步模型给出的截止频率, 并对其进行了初步分析。

本文提出了一个一维μ介子原子模型,用数值积分方法求解了在超强激光场作用下该模型原子的含时Schrdinger方程,得到了它的高次谐波发射谱.该谱表明,借助于这一奇异原子模型,可将相干辐射由XUV波段推向γ-射线波段.针对这个体系的高次谐波发射效率低的缺点,引入双色场后使发射效率提高了两个数量级.