EEHG-assisted FEL schemes for attosecond X-ray pulses generation

In this paper, the schemes of echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) assisted free electron laser (FEL) for generating attosecond soft X-ray pulses are further investigated. We present brief analytical models and three-dimensional simulations for comparison studies of such schemes reported earlier. Moreover, on the basis of these analyses, a more compact and robust EEHG-assisted FEL scheme is proposed for pump-probe experiments using two-color attosecond X-ray pulses.