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| title: | Design and operation of a novel, compact 20 MeV linac at UCLA |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | Intense Microwave and Particle Beams II |
| year: | 1992 |
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| abstract: | A novel, compact S-band linac has been designed and is currently under construction at UCLA. It is expected to deliver high brightness, 200 A, 20 MeV electron pulses, less than 4 ps in duration from a device that is about 1 meter long. It comprises: (a) a laser photocathode driven gun that produces 4.5 MeV electron bunches from a 1/sup 1///sub 2/ cell cavity operating in the pi -mode and (b) an accelerating structure known as a plane wave transformer (PWT) designed by Swenson (1988). The design considerations of the machine and initial operating experience of the gun are discussed. The linac will be used for free electron laser, advanced accelerator research and beam-plasma experiments. (8 References). |
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| title: | The UCLA infrared free-electron laser |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | SPIE Conference on Intense Laser Beams |
| year: | 1992 |
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| abstract: | A compact 20 MeV linac with an RF laser-driven electron gun will drive a high-gain (10 cm gain length), 10.6 mu m wavelength FEL amplifier, operating in the SASE mode. FEL physics in the high-gain regime will be studied, including start-up from noise, optical guiding, sidebands, saturation, and superradiance, with emphasis on the effects important for future short wavelength operation of FELs. The hybrid undulator, designed and built at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in the USSR has forty periods, each 1.5 cm long, the magnetic material is a hybrid combination of SmCo_5 blocks and Nd-Fe-B blocks, with vanadium-permendur yokes. The gap distance between pole-tips is fixed at 5 mm. On axis the peak value of the completed undulator's magnetic field was measured to be 7.3 kGauss (+/- 0.25%). Measurements during the conditioning phase of the RF gun for the electron beam's peak dark-current show 6 mA without the longitudinal magnetic focusing field in the gun and 34 mA with the focusing field active. The peak current from photoemission is calculated to be 200 A. |
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| title: | The UCLA compact infrared free-electron laser |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 13th International Free Electron Laser Conference |
| year: | 1992 |
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| abstract: | The authors present the status of a compact infrared free-electron laser, driven by a 20 MeV, S-band linac with a photoinjector. The 60 cm long hybrid undulator has a 1.5 cm period and a field on axis of 7.3 kG. The FEL will operate at 10.6 mu m as a high-gain amplifier, to study the high-gain FEL regime including the effects of self amplified spontaneous emission, optical guiding and saturation. The linac is the prototype of the plane-wave transformer. TDA simulation of the FEL shows a gain length of 10 cm, and a saturation power of 50 MW. (18 References). |
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| title: | Saturnus: the UCLA infrared free-electron laser project |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 1991 Particle Accelerator Conference |
| year: | 1991 |
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| abstract: | A compact 20-MeV linac with an RF laser-driven electron gun will be used to drive a high-gain (10-cm gain length), 10.6- mu m wavelength FEL (free-electron laser) amplifier, operating in the SASE mode. Saturnus will mainly be used to study FEL physics in the high-gain regime, including start-up from noise, optical guiding, sidebands, saturation, and superradiance, with emphasis on the effects important for future short-wavelength operation of FELs. The primary magnetic flux is provided by C-shaped iron yokes, where between the poles thin blocks of neodymium-iron-boron magnets are placed to provide additional magnetic flux along the undulator axis. (9 References). |
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