IPAC2012 - List of Authors (McCormick, D.J.)

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MOPPR044	Optics and Emittance Studies using the ATF2 Multi-OTR System	879
	J. Alabau-Gonzalvo, C. Blanch Gutierrez, A. Faus-Golfe, J.J. García-Garrigós, J. Resta-López IFIC, Valencia, Spain J. Cruz, D.J. McCormick, G.R. White, M. Woodley SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: Funding Agency: FPA2010-21456-C02-01. Work supported in part by Department of Energy Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. A multi-OTR system (4 beam ellipse diagnostic devices based on optical transition radiation) was installed in the extraction line of ATF2 and has been fully operational since September 2011. The OTRs have been upgraded with a motorized zoom-control lens system to improve beam finding and accommodate different beam sizes. The system is being used routinely for beam size and emittance measurements as well as coupling correction. In this paper we present measurements performed during the winter run of 2011 and the early 2012 runs. We show the reconstruction of twiss parameters and emittance, discuss the reliability of the OTR system and show comparisons with simulations. We also present new work to calculate all 4 coupling terms and form the “4-D” intrinsic emittance of the beam utilizing all the information available from the 2-D beam profile images. We also show details and experimental results for performing a 1-shot automated coupling correction.

TUEPPB015	Generation of Narrow-Band Coherent Tunable Terahertz Radiation using a Laser-Modulated Electron Beam	1146
	M.P. Dunning, C. Hast, E. Hemsing, R.K. Jobe, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, T.O. Raubenheimer, K. Soong, Z.M. Szalata, D.R. Walz, S.P. Weathersby, D. Xiang SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported by US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. The technical layout and initial results of an experiment to generate narrow-band, coherent, tunable terahertz (THz) radiation through the down-conversion of the frequency of optical lasers using a laser-modulated electron beam are described. In this experiment a 120 MeV electron beam is first energy modulated by two lasers with different wavelengths. After passing through a dispersive section, the energy modulation is converted into a density modulation at THz frequencies. This density-modulated beam will be used to generate narrow-band THz radiation using a coherent transition radiator inserted into the beam path. The central frequency of the THz radiation can be tuned by varying the wavelength of one of the two lasers or the energy chirp of the electron beam. The experiment is being performed at the NLCTA at SLAC, and will utilize the existing Echo-7 beamline, where echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) was recently demonstrated.

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Optics and Emittance Studies using the ATF2 Multi-OTR System

879

J. Alabau-Gonzalvo, C. Blanch Gutierrez, A. Faus-Golfe, J.J. García-Garrigós, J. Resta-López
IFIC, Valencia, Spain
J. Cruz, D.J. McCormick, G.R. White, M. Woodley
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: Funding Agency: FPA2010-21456-C02-01. Work supported in part by Department of Energy Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
A multi-OTR system (4 beam ellipse diagnostic devices based on optical transition radiation) was installed in the extraction line of ATF2 and has been fully operational since September 2011. The OTRs have been upgraded with a motorized zoom-control lens system to improve beam finding and accommodate different beam sizes. The system is being used routinely for beam size and emittance measurements as well as coupling correction. In this paper we present measurements performed during the winter run of 2011 and the early 2012 runs. We show the reconstruction of twiss parameters and emittance, discuss the reliability of the OTR system and show comparisons with simulations. We also present new work to calculate all 4 coupling terms and form the “4-D” intrinsic emittance of the beam utilizing all the information available from the 2-D beam profile images. We also show details and experimental results for performing a 1-shot automated coupling correction.

TUEPPB015

Generation of Narrow-Band Coherent Tunable Terahertz Radiation using a Laser-Modulated Electron Beam

1146

M.P. Dunning, C. Hast, E. Hemsing, R.K. Jobe, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, T.O. Raubenheimer, K. Soong, Z.M. Szalata, D.R. Walz, S.P. Weathersby, D. Xiang
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: Work supported by US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The technical layout and initial results of an experiment to generate narrow-band, coherent, tunable terahertz (THz) radiation through the down-conversion of the frequency of optical lasers using a laser-modulated electron beam are described. In this experiment a 120 MeV electron beam is first energy modulated by two lasers with different wavelengths. After passing through a dispersive section, the energy modulation is converted into a density modulation at THz frequencies. This density-modulated beam will be used to generate narrow-band THz radiation using a coherent transition radiator inserted into the beam path. The central frequency of the THz radiation can be tuned by varying the wavelength of one of the two lasers or the energy chirp of the electron beam. The experiment is being performed at the NLCTA at SLAC, and will utilize the existing Echo-7 beamline, where echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) was recently demonstrated.