Author: Krasilnikov, M.
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TUOANO04 PITZ Experience on the Experimental Optimization of the RF Photo Injector for the European XFEL 160
 
  • M. Krasilnikov, H.-J. Grabosch, M. Groß, L. Hakobyan, I.I. Isaev, L. Jachmann, M. Khojoyan, W. Köhler, M. Mahgoub, D. Malyutin, A. Oppelt, M. Otevřel, B. Petrosyan, A. Shapovalov, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, S. Weidinger, R.W. Wenndorff
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • G. Asova
    INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • K. Flöttmann, M. Hoffmann, G. Klemz, S. Lederer, H. Schlarb, S. Schreiber
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • Ye. Ivanisenko
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  • M.A. Nozdrin
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
  • V.V. Paramonov
    RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
  • D. Richter
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • S. Rimjaem
    Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • I.H. Templin, I. Will
    MBI, Berlin, Germany
 
  The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ), develops high brightness electron sources for modern free electron lasers. A continuous experimental optimization of the L-band photo injector for such FEL facilities like FLASH and the European XFEL has been performed for a wide range of electron bunch charges – from 20 pC to 2 nC – yielding very small emittance values for all charge levels. Experience and results of the experimental optimization will be presented in comparison with beam dynamics simulations. The influence of various parameters onto the photo injector performance will be discussed.
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 15, 100701 (2012)
 
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TUPSO30 Conditioning Status of the First XFEL Gun at PITZ 282
 
  • I.I. Isaev, J.D. Good, M. Groß, L. Hakobyan, L. Jachmann, M. Khojoyan, W. Köhler, G. Kourkafas, M. Krasilnikov, D. Malyutin, B. Marchetti, R. Martin, A. Oppelt, M. Otevřel, B. Petrosyan, D. Richter, A. Shapovalov, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, R.W. Wenndorff
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • G. Asova
    INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • P. Boonpornprasert, S. Rimjaem
    Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • M.A. Nozdrin
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
  • G. Pathak
    Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The paper describes the recent results of conditioning and dark current measurements for the photocathode RF gun at the photoinjector test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ). The aim of PITZ is to develop and operate an optimized photo injector for free electron lasers and linear accelerators which require high quality beams. In order to get high gradients in the RF gun extensive conditioning is required. A data analysis of the conditioning process is based on data saved by a Data Acquisition system (DAQ). Conditioning results of the first gun cavity for the XFEL is presented. The events which occurred during the conditioning are briefly described.  
 
TUPSO36 Beam Dynamics Optimization for the High Brightness PITZ Photo Injector Using 3D Ellipsoidal Cathode Laser Pulses 298
 
  • M. Khojoyan, M. Krasilnikov, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
 
  Funding: The work is funded by the German Federal Ministry of education and Research, project 05K10CHE “Development and experimental test of a laser system for producing quasi 3D ellipsoidal laser pulses”.
The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen Site (PITZ) is one of the leading producers of high brightness electron beams for linac based Free Electron Lasers (FELs) with a specific focus on the requirements of FLASH and the European XFEL. The main activities at PITZ are devoted to the detailed characterization and optimization of electron sources yielding to an extremely small transverse beam emittance. The cathode laser pulse shaping is considered as one of the key issues for the high brightness photo injector. Beam dynamics simulations show that the injector performance could be further improved by replacing the typical cylindrically shaped PITZ bunches by uniformly filled 3D ellipsoidal shaped electron beams. A set of numerical simulations were performed to study the beam dynamics of uniformly filled 3D ellipsoidal bunches with 1 nC charge in order to find an optimum PITZ machine setup which will yield the best transverse emittance. Simulation results comparing both options of cylindrical and 3D ellipsoidal beams are also presented and discussed.
 
 
TUPSO39 Development of a Photo Cathode Laser System for Quasi Ellipsoidal Bunches at PITZ 303
 
  • M. Krasilnikov, M. Khojoyan, F. Stephan
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • A. Andrianov, E. Gacheva, E. Khazanov, S. Mironov, A. Poteomkin, V. Zelenogorsky
    IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  • E. Syresin
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
 
  Funding: The work is funded by the German Federal Ministry of education and Research, project 05K10CHE “Development and experimental test of a laser system for producing quasi 3D ellipsoidal laser pulses”.
Cathode laser pulse shaping is one of the key issues for high brightness photo injector optimization. A flat-top temporal profile of the cylindrical pulses reduces significantly the transverse emittance of space charge dominated beams. As a next step towards further improvement in photo injector performance a 3D pulse shaping is considered. An ellipsoid with uniform photon density is the goal of studies in the frame of a Joint German-Russian Research Group, including the Institute of Applied Physics (Nizhny Novgorod), Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna) and the Photo Injector test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ). The major purpose of the project is the development of a laser system capable of producing 3D quasi ellipsoidal bunches and supporting a bunch train structure close to the European XFEL specifications. The laser pulse shaping is realized using the spatial light modulator technique. The laser pulse shape diagnostics based on a cross-correlator is under development as well. Experimental tests of the new laser system with electron beam production are foreseen at PITZ. First results on the quasi ellipsoidal laser pulse shaping will be reported.
 
 
TUPSO47 First Results of a Longitudinal Phase Space Tomography at PITZ 334
 
  • D. Malyutin, M. Groß, I.I. Isaev, M. Khojoyan, G. Kourkafas, M. Krasilnikov, B. Marchetti, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
 
  The Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen Site (PITZ), was established as a test stand of the electron source for FLASH and the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL). One of the tasks at PITZ is the detailed characterization of longitudinal properties of the produced electron bunches. The measurements of the electron bunch longitudinal phase space can be done by tomographic methods using measurements of the momentum spectra by varying the electron bunch energy chirp. At PITZ the energy chirp of the electron bunch can be changed by varying the RF phase of the accelerating structure downstream the gun. The resulting momentum distribution can be measured in a dispersive section installed downstream the accelerating structure. The idea of the measurement and the tomographic reconstruction technique is described in this paper. The setup and first measurement results of the bunch longitudinal phase space measurements using the tomographic technique for several electron bunch charges, including 20 pC, 100 pC and 1 nC, are presented as well.  
 
WEOBNO04
Integration of Accelerator Based IR/THz Source for Pump Probe Experiments in the Infrastructure of the European XFEL  
 
  • M.V. Yurkov, E. Schneidmiller
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Gensch
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • M. Izquierdo
    XFEL. EU, Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Krasilnikov, F. Stephan
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
 
  We analyze the scope of pump-probe experiments at the European XFEL involving IR/THz and x-ray pulses. Different experiments impose different requirements on the properties of the IR/THz source like wavelength range, spectral properties, intensity, pulse duration, polarization, synchronization capabilities, repetition rate, etc. Our previous analysis have shown that the most universal solution of the problem of the IR/THz radiation source is an accelerator based source. The electron accelerator is similar to that operating at the PITZ facility. It consists of an rf gun and a warm (or cold) accelerating section. Powerful, coherent radiation with prescribed temporal, spectral and polarization properties is generated in a set of radiators like undulators (using mechanism of SASE FEL for short wavelength and coherent undulator radiation for long wavelength), edge radiators, OTR foils, diffraction radiators. Location of the electron source close to the experiment would allow performing of pump-probe experiments involving also ultrashort electron pulses. In this paper we discuss problems of the integration of the accelerator based THz source into infrastructure of the European XFEL.  
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