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Generation of double pulses at the Shanghai soft X-ray free electron laser facility

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In this article, we present the promise of a new method generating double electron pulses in picosecond-scale pulse length and tunable interpulse spacing at several picoseconds. This has witnessed an impressive potential of application in pump–probe techniques, two-color X-ray free electron laser, high-gradient witness bunch acceleration in a plasma, etc. Three-dimensional simulations are carried out to analyze the dynamic of the electron beam in a linear accelerator. Comparisons are made between the new method and existing ways.

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The authors are grateful to Zhi-Rong Huang, Meng Zhang and Da-Zhang Huang for helpful discussions.

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  1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Zhen Wang, Chao Feng, Qiang Gu & Zhen-Tang Zhao

  2. Shanghai Sciences Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201204, China

    Zhen Wang, Chao Feng, Qiang Gu & Zhen-Tang Zhao

  3. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Zhen Wang & Zhen-Tang Zhao

  4. National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA

    Li-Hua Yu

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This work was partially supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (No. 2011CB808300) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11175240, 11205234 and 11322550).

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Wang, Z., Feng, C., Gu, Q. et al. Generation of double pulses at the Shanghai soft X-ray free electron laser facility. NUCL SCI TECH 28, 28 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-017-0188-9

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