6 papers
| 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: | Large-field-strength short-period undulator design |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 13th International Free Electron Laser Conference |
| year: | 1992 |
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| abstract: | A high-quality strong-field hybrid undulator has been designed for an infrared FEL project to be performed at UCLA. The primary magnetic flux is provided by C-shaped vanadium-permendur yokes and SmCo_5 magnets. An additional magnetic flux is supplied by thin NdFeB magnet blocks placed between the yoke poles. This magnet geometry provides a high saturation limit for the magnetic field in the gap area. With the 15 mm period and 5 mm gap a peak on-axis field of 7.3 kG has been achieved. The undulator contains 40 periods. The high accuracy of the yoke poles alignment along with the ability to move the thin permanent magnet blocks provides an on-axis magnetic field accuracy better than 0.5%. (9 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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| title: | Saturnus: the UCLA compact infrared free-electron laser project |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | Intense Microwave and Particle Beams II |
| year: | 1991 |
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| abstract: | Saturnus is an infrared FEL operating in the 10 mu m wavelength region, driven by a compact 20 MeV linac with a photoinjector, under construction at UCLA. The 1.5 cm period, 0.6 T peak field undulator is being built at the Kurchatov IAE. The FEL is designed to operate primarily in the self amplified spontaneous emission mode. The authors plan to study the start-up from noise, optical guiding, saturation, sidebands and superradiance, with emphasis on the effects important for future short wavelength operation of FEL's. The photoinjector follows closely the Brookhaven design. Electrons are injected into an accelerating section based on the plane-wave-transformer design developed by Swenson at SAIC. Simulation of the linac and FEL show a gain length of 10 cm, and a saturation power of 50 MW. (13 References). |
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| title: | Saturnus: the UCLA high-gain infrared FEL project |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | 12th International Free Electron Laser Conference |
| year: | 1991 |
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| abstract: | The authors present the status of Saturnus: an infrared FEL operating in the 10 mu m wavelength region, driven by a compact 20 MeV linac with a photoinjector, under construction at UCLA. The 1.5 cm period, 0.5 T peak-field undulator is being built at the Kurchatov IAE. The FEL is being designed to operate primarily in the self-amplified spontaneous emission mode. They plan to study the startup from noise, optical guiding, saturation, sidebands and superradiance, with emphasis on the effects important for future short-wavelength operation of FELs. The photoinjector follows closely the Brookhaven design. Electrons are injected into an accelerating section based on the plane-wave transformer design developed by Swenson at SAIC. Simulation of the linac and FEL show a gain length of 10 cm, and saturation power of 50 MW. (10 References). |
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