Abstract
An experimental platform using X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses with high-intensity optical laser pulses is open for early users' experiments at the SACLA XFEL facility after completion of the commissioning. The combination of the hard XFEL and the high-intensity laser provides capabilities to open new frontiers of laser-based high-energy-density science. During the commissioning phase, characterization of the XFEL and the laser at the platform has been carried out for the combinative utilization as well as the development of instruments and basic diagnostics for user experiments. An overview of the commissioning and the current capabilities of the experimental platform is presented.
Highlights
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) (Emma et al, 2010; Ishikawa et al, 2012) have had a significant impact in broad scientific areas because of their unique properties: high brilliance, short pulse-duration and high spatial coherence
We describe an overview of the commissioning and the current status of the experimental platform with highintensity lasers at SACLA
The experimental platform for the combinative use of the XFEL and the high-intensity lasers is located in experimental hutch 6 (EH6) at the end of the second hard X-ray beamline (BL2) of SACLA in the SACLA SPring-8 experimental facility (Fig. 1)
Summary
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) (Emma et al, 2010; Ishikawa et al, 2012) have had a significant impact in broad scientific areas because of their unique properties: high brilliance, short pulse-duration and high spatial coherence. High-power lasers with focused intensities in the relativistic regime (> 2 Â 1018 W cmÀ2 for 800 nm wavelength) have been commercially available with a short pulse duration of the order of tens of femtoseconds at relatively high repetition rates ($ 1 Hz or more) (Danson et al, 2015). Matter irradiated with such high-intensity laser pulses is heated to high temperature immediately and becomes plasmas, which are strongly non-equilibrium states in space and time.
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