SR_LNLS: A computer code for calculating optical parameters from insertion

devices for ray-tracing simulation of hard and tender X-ray beamlines.

Rafael Celestre, Bernd Meyer

X-ray Optics Group Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and
Materials, Campinas, Brazil
rafael.celestre@gmail.com

Optical characteristics, i.e. photon flux, brightness, brilliance , coherence, polarization, etc., as well as
spatial and angular dimensions from the photon beam are parameters of great importance regarding raytracing simulations as they determine the quality of the X-ray source for photon experiments. Accurate
computation of such parameters are of paramount importance for X-ray beamline projects from the new
light source Sirius, Campinas, Brazil, where energy spread effects show great influence on the photon
beam, being able to cause discrepancies between observed and simulated results.
The observation and systematic study of the energy spread effect on photon beams are quite recent, given
that it is relevant only in low emittance (high brilliance) sources or at free electron lasers (FELs)
facilities [1]. Aiming to address correctly to this effect at undulator insertion devices, a computer code
that handles finite emittance effects and energy spread was written in MATLAB in order to aid the
calculation of optical characteristics, spatial and angular profiles of the photon beam.
Comparisons between the results from the proposed code and already-stablished-codes that handle the
energy spread effect were held for benchmarking. The computer codes used are SPECTRA10 [2] and
SRW [3].
SR_LNLS was written in MATLAB and could be implemented in Python to provide input parameters to
be used by the ray-tracing program SHADOW [4].

[1]

T. Tanaka and H. Kitamura, Universal function for the brilliance of undulator radiation considering the
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[2]

T. Tanaka, Numerical methods for characterization of synchrotron radiation based on the Wigner function
method, Phys. Rev. Spec. Top. - Accel. Beams, vol. 17, p. 060702, 2014.

[3]

O. Chubar and P. Elleaume, Accurate and efficient computation of Synchrotron Radiation in the near field
region, in Proceedings of the EPAC98, 1998, pp. 11771179.

[4]

M. S. del Rio, N. Canestrari, F. Jiang, and F. Cerrina, SHADOW3: a new version of the synchrotron X-ray
optics modelling package., J. Synchrotron Radiat., vol. 18, no. Pt 5, pp. 70816, Sep. 2011.