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Seeding and Harmonic Generation in Free-Electron Lasers

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Abstract

We review the main seeded FEL configurations with particular emphasis on the high-gain harmonic generation. We derive the equations for the growth of the power starting from a pre-bunched beam and provide a simple method to predict the power performances of a seeded free-electron laser device. The formalism introduced may be extended and used in the analysis of other features of a seeded FEL, as the pulse length and saturation effects.

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    Equation (32) is analogous to the formula reported in Stupakov (2011) and was obtained by numerically fitting the first maximum of \(J_{n}\left (x\right )\) as a function of n. The relative error is below 1 % for 3¡n¡100. The function \(\frac{\pi n} {2} \frac{13} {40}\left (\frac{5+2n} {1+n} \right )\) is also a good approximant.

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The author is indebted to W.M. Fawley for multiple readings of the overall manuscript and specifically for his help in cowriting the introduction and section on EEHG. The author also wishes to thank E. Allaria, G. De Ninno, G. Penco, S. Di Mitri, and the other colleagues from the FERMI commissioning team for the fertile environment that they contribute to stimulate and constitute the ground for many of the ideas presented here.

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