%0 Journal Article
%T Control of the Polarization of a Vacuum-Ultraviolet, High-Gain, Free-Electron Laser
%+ Sincrotrone Trieste
%+ Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM)
%+ Laboratorio TASC
%+ Sincrotrone Trieste
%+ School of Applied Sciences
%+ Laboratoire de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie - UFC (UR 3189) (LASA)
%+ Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (LOA)
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%+ Infectious Diseases
%+ EDF (EDF)
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%+ Laboratorio TASC
%+ Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
%+ German Weather Service
%+ European XFEL GmbH
%+ Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials
%+ Institute of Physics and CINSaT
%+ Center for Magnetic Resonance Research [Minneapolis] (CMRR)
%+ NEST-INFM (INFM)
%+ Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche [Modena]
%+ Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences
%+ MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics
%+ Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (CRC)
%+ Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matière et Rayonnement (LCPMR)
%+ Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA)
%A Allaria, Enrico
%A Diviacco, Bruno
%A Callegari, Carlo
%A Finetti, Paola
%A Mahieu, Benoît
%A Viefhaus, Jens
%A Zangrando, Marco
%A de Ninno, Giovanni
%A Lambert, Guillaume
%A Ferrari, Eugenio
%A Buck, Jens
%A Ilchen, Markus
%A Vodungbo, Boris
%A Mahne, Nicola
%A Svetina, Cristian
%A Spezzani, Carlo
%A Di Mitri, Simone
%A Penco, Giuseppe
%A Trovó, Mauro
%A Fawley, William M.
%A Rebernik, Primoz R.
%A Gauthier, David
%A Grazioli, Cesare
%A Coreno, Marcello
%A Ressel, Barbara
%A Kivimäki, Antti
%A Mazza, Tommaso
%A Glaser, Leif
%A Scholz, Frank
%A Seltmann, Joern
%A Gessler, Patrick
%A Grünert, Jan
%A de Fanis, Alberto
%A Meyer, Michael
%A Knie, André
%A Moeller, Stefan P.
%A Raimondi, Lorenzo
%A Capotondi, Flavio
%A Pedersoli, Emanuele
%A Plekan, Oksana
%A Danailov, Miltcho B.
%A Demidovich, Alexander
%A Nikolov, Ivaylo
%A Abrami, Alessandro
%A Gautier, Julien
%A Lüning, Jan
%A Zeitoun, Philippe
%A Giannessi, Luca
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 1356-336X
%J European Physical Education Review
%I SAGE Publications
%V 4
%N 4
%P 041040
%8 2014-12
%D 2014
%R 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041040
%Z Physics [physics]
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph]
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]Journal articles
%X The two single-pass, externally seeded free-electron lasers (FELs) of the FERMI user facility are designed around Apple-II-type undulators that can operate at arbitrary polarization in the vacuum ultraviolet-to-soft x-ray spectral range. Furthermore, within each FEL tuning range, any output wavelength and polarization can be set in less than a minute of routine operations. We report the first demonstration of the full output polarization capabilities of FERMI FEL-1 in a campaign of experiments where the wavelength and nominal polarization are set to a series of representative values, and the polarization of the emitted intense pulses is thoroughly characterized by three independent instruments and methods, expressly developed for the task. The measured radiation polarization is consistently >90% and is not significantly spoiled by the transport optics; differing, relative transport losses for horizontal and vertical polarization become more prominent at longer wavelengths and lead to a non-negligible ellipticity for an originally circularly polarized state. The results from the different polarimeter setups validate each other, allow a cross-calibration of the instruments, and constitute a benchmark for user experiments.
%G English
%L hal-01163727
%U https://hal.science/hal-01163727
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