Download or read book MEASUREMENTS ON SLAC LINAC RF SYSTEM FOR LCLS OPERATION written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project [1] at SLAC uses a dense 15 GeV electron beam passing through a long undulator to generate extremely bright x-rays at 1.5 angstroms. The project requires electron bunches with a nominal peak current of 3.5kA and bunch lengths of 0.020mm (70fs). The RF stability required by the bunch compressors is tighter than what is currently required to run experiments. Measurements to determine how well the existing linac will meet the new requirements are ongoing. Presented is an update on the measurements and how they pertain to LCLS.

Download or read book Linac Coherent Light Source LCLS at 2 4 Nm Using the SLAC Linac written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors describe the possible use of the SLAC linac to drive a unique, powerful, short wavelength Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Using the FEL principle, lasing is achieved in a single pass of a high peak current electron beam through a long undulator by self-amplified-spontaneous-emission (SASE). The main components are a high-brightness electron RF gun with a photocathode, two electron bunch length compressors, the existing SLAC linac, beam diagnostics, and a long undulator combined with a FODO quadrupole focusing system. The RF gun, to be installed about 1 km from the end of the SLAC linac, would produce a single bunch of 6 x 10[sup 9] electrons with an invariant emittance of about 3 mm-mrad and a bunch length of about 500 [mu]m. That bunch is then accelerated to 100 MeV and compressed to a length of about 200 [mu]m. The main SLAC linac accelerates the bunch to 2 GeV were a second bunch compressor reduces the length to 30--40 [mu]m and produces a peak current of 2--3 kA. The bunch is then accelerated to 7--8 GeV and transported to a 50--70 m long undulator. Using electrons below 8 GeV, the undulator could operate at wavelengths down to 2 nm, producing about 10 GW peak power in sub-ps light pulses. At a linac repetition rate of 120 Hz, the average power is about 1 W. Linac operation at lower beam energies provides longer wavelength radiation. After the undulator, the beam is deposited in a dump. The LCLS light pulses are then distributed to multiple user stations using grazing incident mirrors. Length compression, emittance control, phase stability, FEL design criteria, and parameter tolerances are discussed. A demonstration experiment is also described which uses the SLAC linac and (possibly) the PALADIN undulator to study SASE to power saturation at wavelengths of 40--360 nm.

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Download or read book LCLS LLRF Upgrades to the SLAC Linac written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC will be the brightest X-ray laser in the world when it comes on line. In order to achieve the brightness a 200fS length electron bunch is passed through an undulator. To create the 200fS, 3kA bunch, a 10pS electron bunch, created from a photo cathode in an RF gun, is run off crest on the RF to set up a position to energy correlation. The bunch is then compressed by chicanes. The stability of the RF system is critical in setting up the position to energy correlation. Specifications derived from simulations require the RF system to be stable to below 200fS in several critical injector stations and the last kilometer of linac. The SLAC linac RF system is being upgraded to meet these requirements.

Download or read book SLAC Linac RF Performance for LCLS written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at SLAC uses a dense 15 GeV electron beam passing through a long undulator to generate extremely bright x-rays at 1.5 angstroms. The project requires electron bunches with a nominal peak current of 3.5kA and bunch lengths of 0.020mm (70fs). The bunch compression techniques used to achieve the high brightness impose challenging tolerances on the accelerator RF phase and amplitude. The results of measurements on the existing SLAC linac RF phase and amplitude stability are summarized and improvements needed to meet the LCLS tolerances are discussed.

Download or read book Free Electron Lasers 2003 written by Eisuke J. Minehara and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the Proceedings of the 25th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 10th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 8-12, 2003 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki in Japan.

Download or read book LLRF System Upgrade for the SLAC Linac written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC is in full user operation and has met the stability goals for stable lasing. The 250pC bunch can be compressed to below 100fS before passing through an undulator. In a new mode of operation a 20pC bunch is compressed to about 10fS. Experimenters are regularly using this shorter X-ray pulse and getting pristine data. The 10fS bunch has timing jitter on the order of 100fS. Physicists are requesting that the RF system achieve better stability to reduce timing jitter. Drifts in the RF system require longitudinal feedbacks to work over large ranges and errors result in reduced performance of the LCLS. A new RF system is being designed to help diagnose and reduce jitter and drift in the SLAC linac.

Download or read book Free Electron Lasers 2002 written by K.-J. Kim and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the Proceedings of the 24th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 9th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 9-13, 2002 at Argonne National Laboratory. Part I has been reprinted from Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 507 (2003), Nos. 1-2.

Download or read book Results of the SLAC LCLS Gun High Power RF Tests written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beam quality and operational requirements for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) currently being constructed at SLAC are exceptional, requiring the design of a new RF photocathode gun for the electron source. Based on operational experience at SLAC's GTF and SDL and ATF at BNL as well as other laboratories, the 1.6cell s-band (2856MHz) gun was chosen to be the best electron source for the LCLS, however a significant redesign was necessary to achieve the challenging parameters. Detailed 3-D analysis and design was used to produce near-perfect rotationally symmetric rf fields to achieve the emittance requirement. In addition, the thermo-mechanical design allows the gun to operate at 120Hz and a 140MV/m cathode field, or to an average power dissipation of 4kW. Both average and pulsed heating issues are addressed in the LCLS gun design. The first LCLS gun is now fabricated and has been operated with high-power RF. The results of these high-power tests are presented and discussed.

Download or read book Phase Noise Measurements in SLAC Linac written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Linac Coherent Light Source that is under development at SLAC will become the world's first x-ray free electron laser. This laser will enable revolutionary studies in many different areas of science. Before the laser goes into operation at SLAC, phase noise measurements need to be taken to determine whether the existing linac structure will be able to run the LCLS. The phase noise of a system is translated into timing jitter, and the LCLS can only tolerate a certain amount of jitter. The measurements taken on the linac were higher than expected and we hypothesized that our measuring devices might have been the source of high noise readings. After designing new low noise amplifiers to amplify the signal, the phase noise and timing jitter levels went down. We were able to target the PEP phase shifter as the component of the linac system that was adding a lot of noise. More work needs to be done to further reduce the phase noise and timing jitter levels.

Download or read book Linac Coherent Light Source LCLS Design Study Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the University of California at Los Angeles, is proposing to build a Free-Electron-Laser (FEL) R and D facility operating in the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mode in the wavelength range 1.5--15 Å. This FEL, called Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), utilizes the SLAC linac and produces sub-picosecond pulses of short wavelength x-rays with very high peak brightness and full transverse coherence. In this report, the Design Team has established performance parameters for all the major components of the LCLS and developed a layout of the entire system. Chapter 1 is the Executive Summary. Chapter 2 (Overview) provides a brief description of each of the major sections of the LCLS, from the rf photocathode gun, through the experimental stations and electron beam dump. Chapter 3 describes the scientific case for the LCLS. Chapter 4 provides a review of the principles of the FEL physics that the LCLS is based on, and Chapter 5 discusses the choice of the system's physical parameters. Chapters 6 through 10 describe in detail each major element of the system. Chapters 11 through 13 respectively cover undulator controls, mechanical alignment, and radiation issues.

Download or read book Free Electron Lasers 2001 written by M. Brunken and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 2002 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 23 "rd" International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 8 "th" FEL Users Workshop were held on August 20-24 "th" 2001 at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt (TUD) in Germany. This conference is one of a series of FEL conferences administered by an International Executive Committee. It was organized by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the TUDD at which in 1996 the first free electron laser in Germany went into operation, the super-conducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator.

Download or read book Prospects for High Power Linac Coherent Light Source LCLS Development in the 1000 1 Wavelength Range written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electron bunch requirements for single-pass saturation of a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) operating at full transverse coherence in the Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (SASE) mode include: (1) a high peak current, (2) a sufficiently low relative energy spread, and (3) a transverse emittance {var_epsilon}[r-m] satisfying the condition {var_epsilon} ≤ [lambda]A/4[pi], where [lambda][m] is the output wavelength of the FEL. In the insertion device that induces the coherent amplification, the prepared electron bunch must be kept on a trajectory sufficiently collinear with the amplified photons without significant dilution of its transverse density. In this paper we discuss a Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) based on a high energy accelerator such as, e.g., the 3km S-band structure at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), followed by a long high-precision undulator with superimposed quadrupole (FODO) focusing, to fulfill the given requirements for SASE operation in the 1000Å--1Å range. The electron source for the linac, an RF gun with a laser-excited photocathode featuring a normalized emittance in the 1--3 mm-mrad range, a longitudinal bunch duration of the order of 3 ps, and approximately 10−9 C/bunch, is a primary determinant of the required low transverse and longitudinal emittances. Acceleration of the injected bunch to energies in the 5--25 GeV range is used to reduce the relative longitudinal energy spread in the bunch, as well as to reduce the transverse emittance to values consistent with the cited wavelength regime. Two longitudinal compression stages are employed to increase the peak bunch current to the 2--5 kA levels required for sufficiently rapid saturation. The output radiation is delivered, via a grazing-incidence mirror bank, to optical instrumentation and a multi-user beam line system. Technological requirements for LCLS operation at 40Å, 4.5Å, and 1.5Å are examined.

Download or read book The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams written by Jamie Rosenzweig and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the contributions to the Workshop on the Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams, held in July 2002 in Sardinia, Italy. This workshop had a broad international representation from the fields of intense electron sources, free-electron lasers, advanced accelerators, and ultra-fast laser-plasma, beam-plasma and laser-beam physics. The interdisciplinary participants were brought together to discuss advances in the creation and understanding of ultra-fast, ultra-high brightness electron beams, and the unique experimental opportunities in frontier high-energy-density and radiation-source physics which are offered by these scientific tools.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings? (ISTP? / ISI Proceedings)? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

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