Injector Drive Laser Update Sasha Gilevich May 11, 2005 Project Status Drive Laser Procurement R&D Response to Recommendations

Project Status The vendor for the Drive Laser is selected. Purchasing is working on the award of the contract. Four bids for the S20 drive laser facility were received. Bids are being analyzed. Requirements to the Laser PPS are defined. Standard Procedure for Safe Laser Operation is written. Design of the PPS is done. Debug is in progress. Design of the transport tubes done; drawings submitted for the quote. Design of the Launch and Conditioning System is near completion R&D effort is defined and started. LCLS performs shaping & UV conversion R&D with other labs (LLNL, ANL) BNL temporal shaping work with Dazzler completed

Drive Laser Procurement Process Drive Laser Technical Review July 21, 2004 Evaluate RFI & Technical Review Responses Write Request for Proposal (RFP) Write Request for Information (RFI) Write & Approve Advance Procurement Plan (APP) Submit RFP to Vendors Receive the proposals Evaluation & Technical Committees Review the Proposals Evaluation Committee Ranks the Proposals Evaluation Committee Selects Vendor SLAC Awards Contract Site Visit

Drive Laser Procurement Responding to the RFP 5 proposals were submitted Toptica Photonics

Drive Laser Vendor Selection Thales Strengths High potential output IR energy (80mJ system at ALLS) Manufacturer of the QCW DPSS pump laser (Jedi) Used Dazzler in several systems (to get a flat phase after RGA) Proposed configuration can be upgraded to higher energy (up to 50mJ) by adding second Jedi pump. Cryo cooling is not needed, but can be added Aberration-free stretcher (patented). Provides programmable, multi-channel pulse synchronization unit. Short delivery time (8 months) Thales is a part of a very large French defense contractor

Architecture of Proposed Thales Laser System 150ps 80mW 119MHz 119MHz 400mW Femtolasers Oscillator Femtosource Scientific 20s (chirped mirrors) 1.5mx3.75m footprint (~4.5’x11.5’) Stretcher DAZZLER 20 mJ, 120 Hz 5W, 119MHZ RGA Regen Amp Spectra Physics MILLENIA Vs 1mJ, 120Hz 10%extraction 25-30 RT JEDI #1 100 mJ,120 Hz Pre-Amp 4-pass Bowtie Amplifiers are not cryo-cooled IR stability <1%rms (short term) 80 mJ, 120 Hz >20mJ, 120Hz 25%extraction To cathode Amplifier 2-pass Bowtie Compressor THG JEDI #2 100 mJ,120 Hz >2.5mJ, 120Hz 10%efficiency >25mJ, 120Hz 90%eff/pass >40mJ, 120Hz 25%extraction 100 mJ, 120 Hz Courtesy of Dave Dowell

Pump Laser - JEDI Thales The JEDI is the only DPSS laser at 100 Hz available on the market. It has been specially designed to efficiently pump 100 Hz Ti:Sa amplifiers JEDI laser uses 3 FLINT QCW chambers in oscillator-amplifier configuration. This ensures a very good beam quality and high stability (<1% rms). Lifetime of the QCW diodes more than 2x109 shots

Open Issues UV shaping part is not developed No details on special diagnostics Controls interface R&D Plan Conduct UV shaping R&D (LLNL) Develop special diagnostics (LLNL)

BNL/SLAC/INFN Laser Pulse Shaping Dazzler - FastLite Inc. acousto-optic dispersive filter (P. Tournois et al.) acoustic wave (computer programmable) - spectral amplitude - temporal phase TeO2 crystal Dazzler in DUVFEL Drive Laser Courtesy of Dave Dowell and Yuzhen Shen, Carlo Vicario, B. Sheehy, XJ Wang

Results Show Difficulty of Producing & Measuring Square UV Pulses Comparison of UV Pulses in Streak Camera, Cross Correlator and Spectrum Streak Camera Measurements at 3-wavelengths

Summary of the BNL Experiments Laser shaping Reliable flat-top shape of IR spectrum with iterative Dazzler amplitude filter. Thin crystals preserve the 10nm BW in UV conversion, but efficiency only 5%. Flat-top UV spectrum with <10% modulation achieved for 15ps pulse. UV pulse rise time of <1ps achieved. Issues Meet the pulse length of 10ps, rise time of 1ps, and flat-top requirement simultaneously. Phase control required to achieve temporal flat-top in UV. Kerr-effect in regen creates phase distortions from amplitude modulations. Fluctuations in amplifier gain make control of phase distortions difficult. Single shot temporal diagnostics with high resolution required. Laser amplifier stability important for temporal shape stability. Further R&D is needed Courtesy of Henrik Loos

Laser Beam Shaping Work at LLNL (April 2005 – January 2006) Continue the Dazzler shaping studies to improve the quality and reliability of the UV pulse and to explore other shape types Design a third-harmonic, non-linear optical system with more than 10% IR to UV conversion efficiency which uniformly converts over a 10 nm bandwidth. Modeling Integrated model including temporal shaping and UV conversion. Optimize UV conversion efficiency Investigate designs which integrate shaping and conversion. In particular, the approach converting to UV with a short pulse and then stretching in the UV to the desired length Experiments IR and blue shaping Test and optimization of the UV conversion. UV shaping

Laser Diagnostics Effort at LLNL (April – October 2005) Design, build and test diagnostic systems capable of measuring the IR, blue and UV wavelength-phase correlation (waveform) of the laser beam with better than 100 fs and 0.1 nm resolution. These diagnostics need to make these measurements for pulses as long as 20 ps and should be single-shot.

LLNL Work - Summary Perform R&D on techniques to produce temporally shaped UV pulses suitable for use in the LCLS injector. Design, build and test laser diagnostics. Test cathode launch optics with shaped pulses. Provide (advise on) the beam steering stabilization system, which was developed by LLNL. Support in the Drive Laser integration. Participate in the technical reviews of vendor’s work. Support integration of shaping into the drive laser

ANL Work UV Conversion and Spatial Shaping Obtain reference data for conversion efficiency of second and third harmonic of IR laser light from a broadband TiS laser source Compare these results to modeling predictions from the SNLO code Assess the effects of shaping the incident IR transverse profile on the conversion efficiency and transverse profile of the third harmonic (UV) Assess relay imaging of third harmonic light with a transversely shaped (non-Gaussian) profile over an extended transport distance and compare to modeling predictions from the ZEMAX code Evaluate the performance of a reflective UV diffraction grating with respect to diffraction efficiency, anamorphic profile shaping and tilted amplitude front generation (time slew) and the UV fluence threshold for surface damage

Response to Recommendations Conduct a detailed review of the photo-gun drive laser with a panel of laser experts Technical Committee of the outside laser experts participated in the Drive Laser Review (June, 21 2004) Technical Committee gave recommendations on the RFP and evaluated the proposals.

Response to Recommendations Perform a complete set of risk reduction experiments on pulse frequency conversion with shaped pulses using the capabilities at BNL Experiments were performed May – December 2004 The results of the experiments helped in the Laser vendor selection: Dazzler is the right technology for the pulse shaping Having the headroom in the IR power is important Stability of the amplifier operation is important

Response to Recommendations Aggressively seek to hire a laser technology team to oversee all laser activities Laser group leader was hired Greater involvement by laser scientists from LLNL should be sought LLNL conducting R&D work for the project LLNL scientists participate in the Drive Laser procurement and integration process.