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Daniele Nutarelli

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Optical enhancement cavities operated at GHz repetition rate in burst mode regime

The design and experimental validation of a burst-mode optical cavity tailored for inverse Compton scattering X-ray sources is presented. The system is tailored for a room temperature linear accelerator operating at 880 MHz and utilizes a common-path injection scheme for both locking and burst laser pulses to optimize stability and simplicity. We detail the cavity construction, the laser system, and performance under two enhancement cavity finesse regimes (2000 and 7300), highlighting the sensitivity of cavity filling to carrier-envelope offset parameters. A theoretical model is developed to explain observed power dynamics and to guide optimization for high-energy storage. Our findings demonstrate reliable storage exceeding 300 mJ over 20 minutes, paving the way toward compact, high-flux inverse Compton scattering X-ray sources.

physics.optics↗

Design of a thermal loading resilient optical enhancement cavity for operation at 515 nm for X-ray production through inverse Compton scattering in an energy recovery linac

A fast and simple method to optimize a high-power optical enhancement cavity is proposed. It is applied to a four-mirror bow-tie cavity operating at 515 nm, which is to be implemented within the PERLE ERL for the production of X-rays through inverse Compton scattering. The optimized figure of merit is the expected X-ray photon rate. Thermal loading is carefully evaluated, giving also a path towards very high average power operation in infrared. One shows that photon rates exceeding 10^11 per second at average energies above 280 keV in apertures of a few miliradians are within reach. For easier comparison with existing Compact X-ray sources providing high rates of photons, the performance of the proposed design is also evaluated for a system delivering infrared laser pulses. It is shown that a source delivering more than 10^13 photons per second is achievable with this design, an unprecedented performance for existing Compton X-ray sources. The design procedure employed here can be easily applied to other applications of high-power high-finesse optical cavities.

physics.optics↗

Low power commissioning of an innovative laser beam circulator for inverse Compton scattering Gamma-ray source

We report on the optical commissioning of the high power laser beam circulator (LBC) for the high brightness Compton γ-ray source Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics. Tests aiming at demonstrating the optical performances of the LBC have been realized with a low-power pulsed laser-beam system and without electron beam. We show that, with the developed alignment and synchronization methods coming from the LBC design study presented in the Dupraz et al. paper [1], the LBC enhances the laser-beam power available at the interaction point (IP) by a factor in excess of 25. This corresponds to a potential of bringing the average laser-beam power in excess of 1 kW when the LBC is injected with the interaction point laser-beam pulse energy of 400 mJ at 100 Hz.

physics.acc-ph↗