Publications by Thomas Schietinger

A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam

Lukas Stingelin, Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Thomas Schietinger, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Thomas Schmidt, Leonid Rivkin, Christoph Peter Hauri, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Mike Seidel, Paolo Craievich, Sven Reiche

We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. SwissFEL is a very stable, compact and cost-effective X-ray FEL facility driven by a lo ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline: Athos

Thomas Schietinger, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Thomas Schmidt, Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Christoph Bostedt, Paolo Craievich, Sven Reiche

The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) beamline Athos will be ready for user operation in 2021. Its design includes a novel layout of alternating magnetic chicanes and short undulator segments. Together with the APPLE X architecture of undulator ...

2019

Using the optical-klystron effect to increase and measure the intrinsic beam energy spread in free-electron-laser facilities

Thomas Schietinger, Eugenio Ferrari, Sven Reiche

We present a setup based on the optical klystron concept, consisting of two undulator modules separated by a magnetic chicane, that addresses two issues in free-electron-laser (FEL) facilities. On the one hand, it allows increasing the intrinsic energy spr ...

2017

Intrinsic emittance reduction of copper cathodes by laser wavelength tuning in an rf photoinjector

Thomas Schietinger, Christoph Peter Hauri

With the improvement of acceleration techniques, the intrinsic emittance of the cathode has a strong impact on the final brightness of a free electron laser. The systematic studies presented in this paper demonstrate for the first time in a radiofrequency ...

American Physical Society2015

Timing jitter studies of the SwissFEL Test Injector drive laser

Thomas Schietinger, Christoph Peter Hauri

To produce short X-ray pulses for SwissFEL(1), it is necessary to compress the electron bunches by a factor of 300, down to sub-fs for the attosecond operational modes. To achieve stable EEL output accurate timing of the initial electron injection at the m ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014