Chirped pulse amplification in an extreme-ultraviolet free-electron laser
David Gauthier
(1)
,
Enrico Allaria
(1)
,
Marcello Coreno
(2, 1)
,
Ivan Cudin
(1)
,
Hugo Dacasa
(3)
,
Miltcho Boyanov Danailov
(1)
,
Alexander Demidovich
(1)
,
Simone Di Mitri
(1)
,
Bruno Diviacco
(1)
,
Eugenio Ferrari
(1)
,
Paola Finetti
(1)
,
Fabio Frassetto
(4)
,
David Garzella
(5)
,
Swen Kunzel
(6)
,
Vincent Leroux
(7, 8, 9)
,
Benoît Mahieu
(3)
,
Nicola Mahne
(1)
,
Michael Meyer
(10)
,
Tommaso Mazza
(10)
,
Paolo Miotti
(4)
,
Giuseppe Penco
(1)
,
Lorenzo Raimondi
(1)
,
Primož Rebernik Ribič
(1)
,
Robert Richter
(1)
,
Eléonore Roussel
(1)
,
Sebastian Schulz
(11)
,
Luca Sturari
(1)
,
Cristian Svetina
(1)
,
Mauro Trovó
(1)
,
Paul Andreas Andreas Walker
(7, 8)
,
Marco Zangrando
(1, 12)
,
Carlo Callegari
(1)
,
Marta Fajardo
(6)
,
Luca Poletto
(4)
,
Philippe Zeitoun
(3)
,
Luca Giannessi
(1, 13)
,
Giovanni de Ninno
(1, 14)
1
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
2 CNR-ISM - Istituto di Struttura della Materia
3 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
4 CNR Inst Photon & Nanotechnol
5 LIDYL - Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (ex SPAM)
6 IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear [Lisboa]
7 Univ Hambourg, Ctr Free Electron Laser Sci
8 Univ Hamburg, dept Phys
9 ELI Beamlines
10 XFEL - European XFEL GmbH
11 MPSD - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
12 IOM - CNR Istituto Officina dei Materiali
13 ENEA - Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati]
14 Laboratory of Quantum Optics
2 CNR-ISM - Istituto di Struttura della Materia
3 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
4 CNR Inst Photon & Nanotechnol
5 LIDYL - Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (ex SPAM)
6 IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear [Lisboa]
7 Univ Hambourg, Ctr Free Electron Laser Sci
8 Univ Hamburg, dept Phys
9 ELI Beamlines
10 XFEL - European XFEL GmbH
11 MPSD - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
12 IOM - CNR Istituto Officina dei Materiali
13 ENEA - Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati]
14 Laboratory of Quantum Optics
Fabio Frassetto
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Vincent Leroux
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Benoît Mahieu
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Primož Rebernik Ribič
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Eléonore Roussel
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Sebastian Schulz
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Cristian Svetina
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Carlo Callegari
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Philippe Zeitoun
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Résumé
Chirped pulse amplification in optical lasers is a revolutionary technique, which allows the generation of extremely powerful femtosecond pulses in the infrared and visible spectral ranges. Such pulses are nowadays an indispensable tool for a myriad of applications, both in fundamental and applied research. In recent years, a strong need emerged for light sources producing ultra-short and intense laser-like X-ray pulses, to be used for experiments in a variety of disciplines, ranging from physics and chemistry to biology and material sciences. This demand was satisfied by the advent of short-wavelength free-electron lasers. However, for any given free-electron laser setup, a limit presently exists in the generation of ultra-short pulses carrying substantial energy. Here we present the experimental implementation of chirped pulse amplification on a seeded free-electron laser in the extreme-ultraviolet, paving the way to the generation of fully coherent sub-femtosecond gigawatt pulses in the water window (2.3-4.4 nm).