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| TUPEA010 | FERMI Seeded FEL Progress Report | 1182 |
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Funding: Work supported in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under grants FIRB-RBAP045JF2 and FIRB-RBAP06AWK3 FERMI, the seeded Free Electron Laser located at the Elettra laboratory in Trieste, Italy, welcomed in December 2012 the first external users on the FEL-1 line. This line is based on a single stage of High Gain Harmonic Generation (HGHG), seeded by a UV laser, and covers wavelengths between 80 and 20 nm. The photon energy reached more than 300 μJ. The second FEL line, FEL-2, covering the lower wavelength range between 20 and 4 nm thanks to a double stage cascaded HGHG scheme, has generated its first coherent photons in October 2012. This is the first experimental demonstration of a seeded free electron laser configured as a two stages cascade operating in the "fresh bunch injection” mode, where the second stage is seeded by the light produced by the first stage. This paper describes the status of the operation and user experiments with FEL-1 and reports about the progress in the commissioning of FEL-2. |
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| WEPFI015 | Design and Field Measurements of a Linear Accelerator Endowed with Single Feed with Movable Short Coupler | 2732 |
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| The free electron laser performances strongly depend on the beam quality. The dipolar field present in the linac coupler causes the beam emittance degradation. This paper studies an alternative solution for reducing the dipolar field, by using a symmetrical coupler with single feed input and a movable short circuit placed on the opposite waveguide. The structure has been simulated and optimized with the Ansys HFSS simulation code. An aluminum prototype has been machined in the workshop of “Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.”. After matching and tuning the accelerating structure, the phase advance and the coupler field asymmetries have been measured by means of the bead-pull method and have been compared with the simulation results. | ||
| THPFI010 | High Energy RF Deflectors for the FERMI@Elettra project | 3309 |
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| Measuring and controlling the longitudinal phase space and the time-slice emittance of the electron bunch at 1.2 GeV entering in the undulator beam-lines, is crucial to obtain high FEL performances. In the FERMI@Elettra machine, two RF deflecting cavities have been installed at the end of the linac, in order to stretch the electron bunch horizontally and vertically, respectively. The two cavities are individually powered by the same klystron and a switch system is used to choose the deflection plane. This paper reports the RF measurements carried out during the acceptance test, the RF conditioning including the breakdown rate measurements. Finally, the commissioning with electron beam of the deflecting structure and a comparison of the measured electron bunch length evaluated by using the two deflectors are also reported. | ||
| WEPFI015 | Design and Field Measurements of a Linear Accelerator Endowed with Single Feed with Movable Short Coupler | 2732 |
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| The free electron laser performances strongly depend on the beam quality. The dipolar field present in the linac coupler causes the beam emittance degradation. This paper studies an alternative solution for reducing the dipolar field, by using a symmetrical coupler with single feed input and a movable short circuit placed on the opposite waveguide. The structure has been simulated and optimized with the Ansys HFSS simulation code. An aluminum prototype has been machined in the workshop of “Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.”. After matching and tuning the accelerating structure, the phase advance and the coupler field asymmetries have been measured by means of the bead-pull method and have been compared with the simulation results. | ||
| THPFI010 | High Energy RF Deflectors for the FERMI@Elettra project | 3309 |
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| Measuring and controlling the longitudinal phase space and the time-slice emittance of the electron bunch at 1.2 GeV entering in the undulator beam-lines, is crucial to obtain high FEL performances. In the FERMI@Elettra machine, two RF deflecting cavities have been installed at the end of the linac, in order to stretch the electron bunch horizontally and vertically, respectively. The two cavities are individually powered by the same klystron and a switch system is used to choose the deflection plane. This paper reports the RF measurements carried out during the acceptance test, the RF conditioning including the breakdown rate measurements. Finally, the commissioning with electron beam of the deflecting structure and a comparison of the measured electron bunch length evaluated by using the two deflectors are also reported. | ||