FEL induced electron bunch heating observed by a method based on synchronous phase detection

A new method for monitoring instantaneous bunch length has been developed on the UVSOR storage ring. Based on the bunch length dependence of the loss factor, the bunch length can be derived from the synchronous phase shift. Experiments using this method were performed to observe the bunch lengthening associated with the free electron laser (FEL) power variation. From the detuning dependence of the bunch heating, it was found that additional energy spread mostly has a constant ratio to the intracavity laser power normalized by the beam current. However, at the best synchronism region, the induced energy spread exhibits a strong non-linearity against the normalized FEL power and hence the power saturation is accomplished.