To take complete benefit of the Free Electron Laser (FEL) features, we have developed a feedback control scheme
designed to suppress the dynamical instabilities affecting the FEL output intensity. The principle is to stabilize
an unstable stationary state that coexists with the unwanted limit cycle. This paper gives a theoretical and
experimental description of the stabilized stationary regime of a storage ring FEL in presence of the feedback
control. We present a numerical model of the FEL with control, that describes the longitudinal dynamics of the
laser pulse in condition of detuning between the FEL and the electron beam. These theoretical results are compared
with experiments performed on the Super-ACO FEL. The established feedback control provides stable operation of the
FEL.
PACS. 41.60.Cr Free-electron lasers - 42.65.Sf Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal
dynamics