Author: Rosenzweig, J.B.
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TUYB203
Dielectric Optical Accelerator-based Free Electron Lasers  
 
  • J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  Advances in dielectric based optical accelerators have led to a new initiative to build and demonstrate a compact free electron laser based on this technology. The so called GV-per-­meter AcceLerator And X-­ray-­source Integrated Experiment (GALAXIE) has been launched to demonstrate the technology from the beam source, the accelerator structure, the required lasers, and finally the optical undulator required to generate the shortwave length required for this FEL. This presentation should provide a comprehensive overview of the above.  
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WEPFI086 Normal Conducting Radio Frequency X-band Deflecting Cavity Fabrication, Validation and Tuning 2899
 
  • R.B. Agustsson, L. Faillace, A.Y. Murokh, E. Spranza, S. Storms
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • D. Alesini
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • V.A. Dolgashev, J.R. Lewandowski
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  An X-band Traveling wave Deflector mode cavity (XTD) has been developed, fabricated, tuned and characterized by Radiabeam Technologies to perform longitudinal measurement of the sub-picosecond ultra-relativistic electron beams. The device is optimized for the 100 MeV electron beam parameters at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and is scalable to higher energies. The XTD is designed to operate at 11.424 GHz, and features short filling time, femtosecond resolution, and a small footprint. RF design, structure fabrication, cold testing and tuning results are presented.  
 
WEPFI088 High-power Tests of an Ultra-high Gradient Compact S-band (HGS) Accelerating Structure 2902
 
  • L. Faillace, R.B. Agustsson, P. Frigola, A.Y. Murokh, S. Seung
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • S.G. Anderson
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
  • V.A. Dolgashev
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  RadiaBeam Technologies reports on the RF design, fabrication and high-power tests of a ultra-high gradient S-Band accelerating structure (HGS) operating in the pi-mode at 2.856 GHz. The compact HGS structure offers a drop-in replacement for conventional S-Band linacs in research and industrial applications such as drivers for compact light sources, medical and security systems. The electromagnetic design (optimization of the cell shape in order to maximize RF efficiency and minimize surface fields at very high accelerating gradients) has been carried out with the codes HFSS and SuperFish while the thermal analysis has been performed by using the code ANSYS. The high-power conditioning was carried out at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).  
 
WEPFI089 High Gradient Normal Conducting Radio-frequency Photoinjector System for Sincrotrone Trieste 2905
 
  • L. Faillace, R.B. Agustsson, H. Badakov, P. Frigola
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • F. Cianciosi, P. Craievich, M. Trovò
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
  • A. Fukasawa, J.B. Rosenzweig, A. Yakub
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
 
  Radiabeam Technologies, in collaboration with UCLA, presents the development of a high gradient normal conducting radio frequency (NCRF) 1.6 cell photoinjector system for the Sincrotrone Trieste facility. Designed to operate with a 120MV/m accelerating gradient, this single feed, fat lipped racetrack coupler design is modeled after the LCLS photoinjector with a novel demountable cathode which permits cost effective cathode exchange. Full overview of the project to date and installation at Sincrotrone Trieste will be discussed along with basic, design, engineering and manufacturing.  
 
WEPME063 Progress Report on Development of a 5-μm Drive Laser for Dielectric Laser Acceleration 3079
 
  • G. Xu, I. Jovanovic, S.F. Wandel
    Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
  • E.R. Arab
    PBPL, Los Angeles, USA
  • P.D. Hoang, P. Musumeci, B.D. O'Shea, J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • A.Y. Murokh, A.G. Ovodenko
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • I. Pogorelsky
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: This work has been sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
A simple and robust ultrafast, high-peak-power 5-μm laser source for pumping a dielectric photonic structure for high-gradient electron acceleration has been designed and is being constructed. The use of long wavelength drive lasers can mitigate the problem of dielectric structure breakdown caused by multiphoton ionization. In addition, structure fabrication requirements are relaxed, and greater energy can be stored in the structure. The 5-μm laser source consists of two components: (1) a type-II-beta-barium borate-based 2-μm optical parametric amplifier (OPA) as a pump source, and (2) a type-I-zinc-germaniu-phosphate-based 5-μm OPA to produce mJ-class, <100 fs pulses. Our supercontinuum seeded two-stage 2-μm OPA is pumped by a Ti:sapphire amplifier and produces pulse energy of ~1.4 mJ with a pulse duration of 42 fs (~6 optical cycles). Carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilization is passively established for 2 μm pulses in our OPA design. An modified design of seed pulse generation for the 5-μm OPA based on several cascaded parametric processes can also result in CEP-stable operation for 5-μm amplified pulses.