Author: Maxwell, T.J.
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MOPC12 Coherent Synchrotron Radiation and Bunch Compression Studies in the Emittance Exchange Beamline at the Fermilab A0 Photoinjector 121
 
  • J.C.T. Thangaraj, M.D. Church, H.T. Edwards, A.S. Johnson, A.H. Lumpkin, J. Ruan, J.K. Santucci, Y.-E. Sun, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • T.J. Maxwell, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  One of goals of the Fermilab A0 photoinjector is to investigate experimentally the transverse to longitudinal emittance exchange principle. Coherent synchrotron radiation in the emittance exchange line could limit short pulse operation of the emittance exchanger. In this paper, we present experimental and simulation study of the coherent synchroton radiation (CSR) in the emittance exchange line at A0 photoinjector. We also show how EEX can be used to compress a bunch by adding chirp to the incoming beam.  
 
THPA21 Commissioning of a Streak Camera for Laser Characterization at NML 515
 
  • J. Ruan, A.H. Lumpkin
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • T.J. Maxwell
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  A streak camera will be used for longitudinal profile measurement of a drive laser for the superconducting radio frequency photoinjector test facility at Fermilab. We are evaluating both a Photek intensified CCD camera and a Hamamatsu cooled CCD camera as the readout camera option for the Hamamatsu C5680 streak camera unit with a synchroscan sweep unit. Trade on low signal sensitivity and spatial resolution for the two lens-coupled options are being evaluated. In addition, an ultrashort laser pulse from a Ti:sapphire laser is used to measure the temporal resolution for both configurations.  
 
THPB24 Generation and Acceleration of Uniformly-filled Ellipsoidal Bunches Obtained via Space-charge Expansion from a Semiconductor Photocathode 605
 
  • P. Piot, J. Ruan, Y.-E. Sun, J.C.T. Thangaraj
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • T.J. Maxwell
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  We report on the experimental generation, acceleration and characterization of a uniformly-filled electron bunch obtained via space-charge-driven expansion (so called "blow-out regime") at the A0 photoinjector at Fermilab. The beam is photoemitted from a CsTe photocathode using a short (<~200 fs) ultraviolet pulse obtained via frequency-tripling of an amplified Ti:Sp infrared pulse. The produced electron bunches are characterized with conventional diagnostics and the measurements are bench-marked against numerical simulations performed with ASTRA and GPT.