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Maximizing magnetic field generation in high power laser–solid interactions
摘要： In order to understand the transport of fast electrons within solid density targets driven by an optical high power laser, we have numerically investigated the dynamics and structure of strong self-generated magnetic fields in such experiments. Here we present a systematic study of the bulk magnetic field generation due to the ponderomotive current, Weibel-like instability and resistivity gradient between two solid layers. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we observe the effect of varying the laser and target parameters, including laser intensity, focal size, incident angle, preplasma scale length, target thickness and material and experimental geometry. The simulation results suggest that the strongest magnetic field is generated with laser incident angles and preplasma scale lengths that maximize laser absorption efficiency. The recent commissioning of experimental platforms equipped with both optical high power laser and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), such as European XFEL-HED, LCLS-MEC and SACLA beamlines, provides unprecedented opportunities to probe the self-generated bulk magnetic field by X-ray polarimetry via Faraday rotation with simultaneous high spatial and temporal resolution. We expect that this systematic numerical investigation will pave the way to design and optimize near future experimental setups to probe the magnetic fields in such experimental platforms.
关键词： laser–plasmas interaction,X-ray free electron laser probing,high energy density physics
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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[IEEE 2019 23rd International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT) - SALERNO, Italy (2019.10.23-2019.10.26)] 2019 23rd International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT) - Toward the Application of Reinforcement Learning to the Intensity Control of a Seeded Free-Electron Laser
摘要： The optimization of particle accelerators is a challenging task, and many different approaches have been proposed in years, to obtain an optimal tuning of the plant and to keep it optimally tuned despite drifts or disturbances. Indeed, the classical model-free approaches (such as Gradient Ascent or Extremum Seeking algorithms) have intrinsic limitations. To overcome those limitations, Machine Learning techniques, in particular, the Reinforcement Learning, are attracting more and more attention in the particle accelerator community. The purpose of this paper is to apply a Reinforcement Learning model-free approach to the alignment of a seed laser, based on a rather general target function depending on the laser trajectory. The study focuses on the alignment of the lasers at FERMI, the free-electron laser facility at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. In particular, we employ Q-learning with linear function approximation and report experimental results obtained in two setups, which are the actual setups where the final application has to be deployed. Despite the simplicity of the approach, we report satisfactory preliminary results, that represent the first step toward a fully automatic procedure for seed laser to the electron beam. Such a superimposition is, at present, performed manually.
关键词： Free-Electron Laser,Particle Accelerators,Q-learning,Reinforcement Learning,Machine Learning
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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An oxyl/oxo mechanism for oxygen-oxygen coupling in PSII revealed by an x-ray free-electron laser
摘要： Photosynthetic water oxidation is catalyzed by the Mn4CaO5 cluster of photosystem II (PSII) with linear progression through five S-state intermediates (S0 to S4). To reveal the mechanism of water oxidation, we analyzed structures of PSII in the S1, S2, and S3 states by x-ray free-electron laser serial crystallography. No insertion of water was found in S2, but flipping of D1 Glu189 upon transition to S3 leads to the opening of a water channel and provides a space for incorporation of an additional oxygen ligand, resulting in an open cubane Mn4CaO6 cluster with an oxyl/oxo bridge. Structural changes of PSII between the different S states reveal cooperative action of substrate water access, proton release, and dioxygen formation in photosynthetic water oxidation.
关键词： oxygen-oxygen coupling,photosystem II,x-ray free-electron laser,water oxidation,oxyl/oxo mechanism
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Study on Irradiation Effect of Mid-Infrared Free Electron Laser on Hen Egg-White Lysozyme by Using Terahertz-Time Domain Spectroscopy and Synchrotron-Radiation Vacuum-Ultraviolet Circular-Dichroism Spectroscopy
摘要： Mid-infrared free-electron laser (MIR-FEL) is potentially applicable for tissue ablation and dissociation of pathological peptide aggregates in medicine. However, it is still poorly understood how the MIR-FEL irradiation influences on functional proteins such as enzymes. In the current study, the effect of MIR-FEL on both aggregate and non-aggregate (= native) states of hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) as a representative enzyme has been investigated. Absorption intensity at terahertz region (0.3–1.2 THz, 10–40 cm?1) of the aggregate of HEWL was lower than that of the native HEWL, but the former was increased nearly to the same level with the latter after the MIR-FEL irradiation tuned to 6 μm that corresponds to carbonyl stretching vibrational mode of amide bonds (amide I). This indicates that the aggregate of HEWL was converted to the native state by the irradiation. On the other hand, synchrotron-radiation vacuum-ultraviolet circular-dichroism spectroscopy showed that protein conformation of the native HEWL, which was rich in α-helix, was little changed after the MIR-FEL irradiation under the same condition with the case of the aggregate of HEWL. Furthermore, the enzymatic hydrolysis activity of the native HEWL against bacterial glycan was not remarkably decreased by the irradiation. Therefore, it can be estimated that the native structure of HEWL is little damaged although the aggregate state can be easily dissociated by the resonant excitation at amide bonds.
关键词： Vacuum-ultraviolet circular-dichroism spectroscopy,Mid-infrared free-electron laser,Protein aggregate,Terahertz-time domain spectroscopy
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Reconstruction of 3D structure for nanoscale biological objects from experiments data on super-bright X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs): dependence of the 3D resolution on the experiment parameters
摘要： The ability to investigate 3D structure of biomolecules, such as proteins and viruses, is essential in biology and medicine. With the invention of super-bright X-ray free electron lasers (e.g. European XFEL and Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)) the Single Particle Imaging (SPI) approach allows to reconstruct 3D structures from many 2D diffraction images produced in the experiment by X-rays scattered on the biomolecule exposed in different orientations. In the same time, there are still many challenging problems in experiment setup, sample preparation and injection, which limit number and quality of obtained diffraction patterns and, consequently, limit achievable resolution of recovered 3D structure. However even with the current experimental limitations it is possible to reconstruct 3D structures of some large biomolecules. An important question arises: what range of 3D resolution is possible to achieve under experimental conditions available now. We investigated how the number and quality of diffraction images affect the 3D resolution. First the SPI experiment was simulated and reconstructed with the Dragonfly software. Then we analyzed how the number of diffraction images and the beam intensity affect the final 3D resolution. We come to the following conclusions: 1) starting from the beam intensity value (fluence) equal to 3×1012 photons/μm2 the resolution becomes to be almost constant; 2) the resolution strongly depends on the number of diffraction patterns. More than 10 000 diffraction images are required to get 4 nm resolution.
关键词： Single Particle Imaging,Three-dimensional Reconstruction,X-ray Free Electron Laser,space resolution
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Attosecond pulse shaping using a seeded free-electron laser
摘要： Attosecond pulses are central to the investigation of valence- and core-electron dynamics on their natural timescales1–3. The reproducible generation and characterization of attosecond waveforms has been demonstrated so far only through the process of high-order harmonic generation4–7. Several methods for shaping attosecond waveforms have been proposed, including the use of metallic filters8,9, multilayer mirrors10 and manipulation of the driving field11. However, none of these approaches allows the flexible manipulation of the temporal characteristics of the attosecond waveforms, and they suffer from the low conversion efficiency of the high-order harmonic generation process. Free-electron lasers, by contrast, deliver femtosecond, extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray pulses with energies ranging from tens of microjoules to a few millijoules12,13. Recent experiments have shown that they can generate subfemtosecond spikes, but with temporal characteristics that change shot-to-shot14–16. Here we report reproducible generation of high-energy (microjoule level) attosecond waveforms using a seeded free-electron laser17. We demonstrate amplitude and phase manipulation of the harmonic components of an attosecond pulse train in combination with an approach for its temporal reconstruction. The results presented here open the way to performing attosecond time-resolved experiments with free-electron lasers.
关键词： high-order harmonic generation,Attosecond pulses,temporal reconstruction,free-electron laser
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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An x-ray regenerative amplifier free-electron laser using diamond pinhole mirrors
摘要： X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) rely on SASE due to the lack of seed lasers and the difficulty in obtaining mirrors. Progress in diamond crystal Bragg mirrors enables the design of x-ray FEL oscillators. Regenerative amplifiers (RAFELs) are high gain/low-Q oscillators that out-couple most of the optical power. An x-ray RAFEL based on the LCLS-II at SLAC using a six-mirror resonator out-coupling 90% or more through a pinhole in the first downstream mirror is analyzed using the MINERVA simulation in the undulator and OPC for the resonator. Results show substantial powers at the fundamental (3.05 keV) and 3rd harmonic (9.15 keV).
关键词： x-ray,oscillator,regenerative amplifier,free-electron laser
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Electron Population Dynamics in Optically Pumped Asymmetric Coupled Ge/SiGe Quantum Wells: Experiment and Models
摘要： n-type doped Ge quantum wells with SiGe barriers represent a promising heterostructure system for the development of radiation emitters in the terahertz range such as electrically pumped quantum cascade lasers and optically pumped quantum fountain lasers. The nonpolar lattice of Ge and SiGe provides electron–phonon scattering rates that are one order of magnitude lower than polar GaAs. We have developed a self-consistent numerical energy-balance model based on a rate equation approach which includes inelastic and elastic inter- and intra-subband scattering events and takes into account a realistic two-dimensional electron gas distribution in all the subband states of the Ge/SiGe quantum wells by considering subband-dependent electronic temperatures and chemical potentials. This full-subband model is compared here to the standard discrete-energy-level model, in which the material parameters are limited to few input values (scattering rates and radiative cross sections). To provide an experimental case study, we have epitaxially grown samples consisting of two asymmetric coupled quantum wells forming a three-level system, which we optically pump with a free electron laser. The benchmark quantity selected for model testing purposes is the saturation intensity at the 1→3 intersubband transition. The numerical quantum model prediction is in reasonable agreement with the experiments and therefore outperforms the discrete-energy-level analytical model, of which the prediction of the saturation intensity is off by a factor 3.
关键词： silicon–germanium heterostructures,intersubband photoluminescence,optical pumping,intersubband transitions,electron–phonon interaction,infrared spectroscopy,quantum wells,free electron laser,terahertz quantum cascade laser
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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[IEEE 2019 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) - Paris, France (2019.9.1-2019.9.6)] 2019 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) - Research of Volume Free-Electron Laser with Photonic Crystal Structure for Operation in Sub-Terahertz Range
摘要： In this work, we present the results of the numerical optimization of volume free-electron laser based on the interaction between an electron beam and periodic structure of microwave photonic crystal. The optimization aims at the advancement of such device to the sub-terahertz frequency range. We show that the reduction of characteristic geometric dimensions allows increasing the working frequency of photonic crystal fundamental mode up to 12.5 GHz. Moreover, we observe the possibility to generate microwaves at the fifth harmonic of the fundamental frequency, namely f=62.5 GHz and obtain an output power level of about 3.6 kW.
关键词： electron beam,numerical optimization,sub-terahertz,volume free-electron laser,photonic crystal
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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AIP Conference Proceedings [AIP Publishing TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY: TMREES19Gr - Athens, Greece (4–6 September 2019)] TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY: TMREES19Gr - Rain formation by free electron laser pulse system FELPS
摘要： At present, several problems and challenges have arisen as a result of human population growth and technological development, including global warming, water shortages and drought, especially in arid zones characterized by high temperatures.The low rainfall leads to increased drought and desertification, which has a negative impact on human life. In this study, a new laser technique was proposed to create rain in the atmosphere. Artificial rain can be formed by the proper energy of the laser pulse that stimulates a series of chemical and physical reactions in the clouds to obtain the appropriate rain drops.This technique is based on the use of a free electron beam with suitable energy and adaptable to the weather conditions by changing the wavelength and intensity of the laser beam and the duration of the pulse, ensuring that water droplets of sufficient size to fall.
关键词： atmospheric reactions,laser pulse,FELPS,artificial rain,free electron laser
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52