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TUPPD080 | Design of Ultrafast High-Brightness Electron Source | 1587 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-SC0006210. Generation and preservation of ultrafast electron beams is one of the major challenges in accelerator R&D. Space charge forces play a fundamental role in emittance dilution and bunch lengthening for all high brightness beams. In order to generate and preserve the ultrafast high-brightness electron beam, transverse and longitudinal space charge effects have to be considered. Several approaches to achieving ultra-short bunches have been explored such as velocity bunching and magnetic compression. However, each option suffers drawbacks in achieving a compact ultrafast high-brightness source. We present an alternative scheme to achieve an ultrafast high-brightness electron beam using a radial bunch compression technique in an x-band photocathode RF electron gun. By compensating the path length difference with a curved cathode and using an extremely high acceleration gradient (greater than 200 MV/m), we seek to deliver 100 pC, 100 fsec bunches. |
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TUPPP087 | Commissioning of the Fritz Haber Institute Mid-IR FEL | 1792 |
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The IR and THz FEL at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) in Berlin is designed to deliver radiation from 4 to 400 microns. A single-plane-focusing undulator combined with a 5.4-m-long cavity is used is the mid-IR (< 50 micron), while a two-plane-focusing undulator in combination with a 7.2-m-long cavity with a 1-D waveguide for the optical mode is planned for the far-IR. Beam was delivered to the IR beam dump in November 2011. We describe progress since that time in completing the commissioning of the mid-IR beamline and the status of the far-IR beamline design and fabrication. | ||