Author: Zhou, F.
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TUPSO84 SLAC RF Gun Photocathode Test Facility 427
 
  • T. Vecchione, A. Brachmann, W.J. Corbett, M.J. Ferreira, S. Gilevich, E.N. Jongewaard, H. Loos, J. Sheppard, S.P. Weathersby, F. Zhou
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
A RF gun photocathode test facility has been commissioned at SLAC. The facility consists of a S-band gun, high power RF, a UV drive laser and beam diagnostics. Here we report on the capabilities of the facility demonstrated during commissioning. Currently the facility is being used to study in-situ laser processing of copper photocathodes. In the future the facility will be used to study fundamental gun and photocathode performance limitations and enhancement strategies. Eventually it is envisioned to integrate a load lock and plug into the gun enabling the evaluation of high performance surface sensitive semiconductor photocathodes and the incorporation of ex-situ surface science analytical techniques.
 
 
WEPSO27 Recent LCLS Performance From 250 to 500 eV 554
 
  • R.H. Iverson, J. Arthur, U. Bergmann, C. Bostedt, J.D. Bozek, A. Brachmann, W.S. Colocho, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, Y. Feng, J.C. Frisch, J.N. Galayda, T. Galetto, Z. Huang, E.M. Kraft, J. Krzywinski, J.C. Liu, H. Loos, X.S. Mao, S.P. Moeller, H.-D. Nuhn, A.A. Prinz, D.F. Ratner, T.O. Raubenheimer, S.H. Rokni, W.F. Schlotter, P.M. Schuh, T.J. Smith, M. Stanek, P. Stefan, M.K. Sullivan, J.L. Turner, J.J. Turner, J.J. Welch, J. Wu, F. Zhou
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • P. Emma
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • R. Soufli
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by US Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and BES.
The Linac Coherent Light Source is an X-ray free-electron laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It produces coherent soft and hard X-rays with peak brightness nearly ten orders of magnitude beyond conventional synchrotron sources and a range of pulse durations from 500 to <10 fs. The facility has been operating at X-ray energy from 500 to 10,000eV. Users have expressed great interest in doing experiments with X-Rays near the carbon absorption edge at 284eV. We describe the operation and performance of the LCLS in the newly established regime between 250 and 500eV.
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ton. 4(9), 641–647 (2010).