Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
We report observation of a strong wakefield induced energy modulation in an energy-chirped electron bunch passing through a terahertz dielectric-lined waveguide. This modulation can be effectively converted into a spatial modulation by means of a chicane, forming micro-bunches (density modulation) with a periodicity of 0.5 - 1 picosecond, hence capable of driving coherent THz radiation. The experimental results agree well with theoretical predictions.
Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
We report an observation of de-chirping of a linearly chirped (in energy) electron bunch by its passage through a 5 cm long dielectric loaded waveguide structure. The experiment was conducted at the ATF facility at BNL according to a concept dubbed a wakefield silencer originally developed at the ANL AATF*, which involves defining the electron bunch peak current distribution and selecting the optimal waveguide structure suitable for chirp cancellation using self-induced wakefields of the electron bunch. Our experiment has been carried out with a 247 micron triangular beam with a 200 keV energy spread, which was reduced by a factor of three to approximately 70 keV by passing it through a 0.95 THz dielectric-lined structure. Theoretical analysis supports the experimental results. Further exploration and applications of this technique will be discussed as well.
* M. Rosing, J. Simpson, Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Note, WF -144 (1990).
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SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
TISNCM, Troitsk, Russia
We report on experimental results of FEL self-seeding with Angstrom wavelengths at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC. The scheme, suggested at DESY*, replaces the 16th 4-m long undulator segment (out of 33 total) with a weak magnetic chicane and a diamond-based monochromator in Bragg transmission geometry. The monochromatized SASE FEL pulse from the first half of the undulator line then seeds the second half. This demonstration of hard x-ray self-seeding is shown to narrow the FEL bandwidth by a factor 40-50, allows longitudinally coherent x-ray pulses near the Fourier-transform limit, and may eventually allow an increases in peak brightness by 1-2 orders of magnitude after applying an aggressive undulator field taper.
* G. Geloni, V. Kocharyan, E. Saldin, DESY 10-133, Aug. 2010.
ANL, Argonne, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) Project at Argonne will include generation of short-pulse x-rays based on Zholents’* deflecting cavity scheme. We have chosen superconducting (SC) cavities in order to have a continuous train of crabbed bunches and flexibility of operating modes. In collaboration with Jefferson Laboratory, we are prototyping and testing a number of single-cell deflecting cavities and associated auxiliary systems with promising initial results. In collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we are working to develop state-of-the-art timing, synchronization, and differential rf phase stability systems that are required for SPX. Collaboration with Advanced Computations Department at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is looking into simulations of complex, multi-cavity geometries with lower- and higher-order modes waveguide dampers using ACE3P. This contribution provides the current R&D status of the SPX project.
* A. Zholents et al., NIM A 425, 385 (1999).