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Article
Title	Design Considerations for the 4GLS XUV-FEL
Author(s)	McNeil, B W J ; Robb, G R M
Affiliation	(Strathclyde University, Glasgow DESY, Hamburg CCLRC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire)
Publication	2005
In:	27th International Conference on Free Electron Lasers, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 21 - 26 Aug 2005, pp.506
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	An XUV Free-Electron Laser operating in the photon energy range 10-100eV is a key component of the proposed 4th Generation Light Source (4GLS) at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. The current design proposal is an amplifier FEL seeded by a Higher Harmonic Generation (HHG) source. In this paper we present and discuss the considerations that led to the current design. We also present 3D simulation results that illustrate the potential radiation output characteristics.