Generating polarization controllable FELs at Dalian coherent light source

TL;DR

This paper explores methods to generate highly controllable polarization states in free-electron lasers at Dalian coherent light source, enabling new scientific applications with tunable EUV pulses.

Contribution

It presents polarization control approaches and demonstrates the feasibility of generating circularly polarized FELs with high modulation frequency and pulse energy.

Findings

Circularly polarized FELs with high modulation frequency achieved

Pulse energy reaching 100 microjoules simulated

Potential for new scientific applications in EUV regime

Abstract

The property of the FEL polarization is of great importance to the user community. FEL pulses with ultra-high intensity and flexible polarization control ability will absolutely open up new scientific realms. In this paper, several polarization control approaches are presented to investigate the great potential on Dalian coherent light source, which is a government-approved novel FEL user facility with the capability of wavelength continuously tunable in the EUV regime of 50-150 nm. The numerical simulations show that both circularly polarized FELs with highly modulating frequency and 100 microjoule level pulse energy could be generated at Dalian coherent light source.