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TUP064 Narrow Linewidth, Chirp-Control and Radiation Extraction Optimization in an Electrostatic Accelerator FEL Oscillator FEL, electron, laser, radiation 509
 
  • H. S. Marks, A. Gover, H. Kleinman, J. Wolowelsky
    University of Tel-Aviv, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • D. Borodin, M. Einat, M. Kanter, Y. Lasser, Yu. Lurie
    Ariel University Center of Samaria, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel, Israel
 
  In recent years the electrostatic accelerator FEL based in Ariel has undergone many upgrades. By varying the accelerating potential the resonator allows lasing between 95-110 GHz. It is now possible to remotely control the output reflectivity of the resonator and thereby vary both the power built up in the resonator and that emitted. This has allowed fine control over the power for different user experiments. A voltage ramping device has been installed at the resonator/wiggler to correct drops in voltage which occur due to electrons striking the walls of the beam line. This has allowed stable pulses of just over 50 μs with a chirp rate of ~80 kHz/μs.  
 
TUP069 Cavity Length Change vs. Mirror Steering in a Ring Confocal Resonator cavity, FEL, operation, optics 516
 
  • S.V. Benson
    JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-84-ER40150, the Office of Naval Research, and the Joint Technology Office.
In principle, a ring confocal resonator allows for the use of a short Rayleigh length without the extreme sensi-tivity to mirror steering typical in a near-concentric reso-nator [1]. One possible weakness of such a resonator is that the cavity length is no longer independent of the mirror steering. This is one of the strengths of a linear resonator. In this presentation, it is shown that, in a simple 2-dimensional corner cube type ring confocal resonator, the cavity length is, in fact, not dependent on the mirror steering to first order in the mirror angles. Thus the ring-confocal resonator might be a very easy-to-operate and stable resonator for short Rayleigh range operation in FEL oscillators
[1] Stephen Benson, George Neil, Michelle Shinn, Laser and Beam Control Technologies, Santanu Basu, James Riker, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4632 (2002).
 
 
TUP081 Configuration and Status of the Israeli THz Free Electron Laser FEL, electron, laser, RF-structure 553
 
  • A. Friedman, N. Balal, V.L. Bratman, E. Dyunin, Yu. Lurie, E. Magori
    Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
  • A. Gover
    University of Tel-Aviv, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
 
  Funding: This project is funded in part by Israel Ministry of Defense.
A THz FEL is being built in Ariel University. This project is a collaboration between Ariel University, and Tel Aviv University. Upon completion it is intended to become a user facility. The FEL is based on a compact photo cathode gun (60 cm) that will generate an electron beam at energies of 4.5 - 6.5 MeV. The pulses are planned to be of 300 pico Coulomb for a single pulse, and of up to 1.5 nano Coulomb for a train of pulses. The FEL is designed to emit radiation between 1 and 5 THz. It is planned to operate in the super radiance regime. The configuration of the entire system will be presented, as well as theoretical and numerical results for the anticipated output of the FEL, which is in excess of 150 KW instantaneous power. The bunching of the electron bean will be achieved by mixing two laser beams on the photo-cathode. The compression of the beam will be achieved be introducing an energy chierp to the beam and passing it through a helical chicane. We plan on compressing the single pulse to less than 150 femto seconds. The status of the project at the time of the conference will be presented.
 
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THP074 Infrared Diagnostics Instrumentation Design for the Coherent Electron Cooling Proof of Principle Experiment electron, FEL, ion, experiment 905
 
  • T.A. Miller, D.M. Gassner, V. Litvinenko, M.G. Minty, I. Pinayev, B. Sheehy
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy
The Coherent Electron Cooling Proof-of-Principle experiment [*] based on an FEL is currently under construction in the RHIC tunnel at BNL. Diagnostics for the experimental machine [**] are currently being designed, built and installed. This paper focuses on the design of the infrared diagnostic instrumentation downstream of the three tandem 2.8m long helical wiggler sections that will act on a 22MeV 68uA electron beam co-propagating with the 40GeV/u RHIC gold beam. The 14 um FEL radiation, or wiggler light, will be extracted from RHIC via a viewport in a downstream DX magnet cryostat and analysed by instrumentation on a nearby optics bench. Instruments concentrating on three parameters, namely intensity, spectral content, and transverse profile, will extract information from the wiggler light in an attempt to quantify the overlap of the electron and ion beams and act as an indicator of coherent cooling.
* V. Litvinkenko, et al THOBN3, PAC2011, New York, NY
** D. M. Gassner, et al WEAP01, BIW2012, Newport News, VA