Author: Wallace, P.W.
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MOPEA078 Commissioning and Operation of Wiggler Switchyard System for Duke FEL and HIGS 267
 
  • Y.K. Wu, M.D. Busch, M. Emamian, J.F. Faircloth, H. Hao, J.Y. Li, S.F. Mikhailov, V. Popov, G. Swift, P.W. Wallace, P. Wang, J. Yan
    FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  • A.L. Wu
    USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: This work is supported in part by the US DOE grant no. DE-FG02-97ER41033.
To enable the Duke storage ring FEL to operate in VUV with adequate gain, a major storage ring upgrade was carried out in 2012 to install two additional helical FEL wigglers with a wiggler switchyard system. Using the switchyard, a quick changeover can be made between two planar OK-4 wigglers and two helical OK-5 wigglers in the middle of the FEL straight section. This system preserves the linear polarization capabilities of the Duke FEL and gamma-ray beams at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS), while enabling VUV FEL operation with a higher gain using a longer FEL with as many as four helical wigglers. The wiggler switchyard upgrade was completed in Summer 2012, followed by a rapid and successful commissioning of the Duke storage ring, FEL system, and HIGS. In this paper, we will present the results of accelerator and light source commissioning with the wiggler switchyard. We will also present preliminary results of operating the OK-5 FEL in different configurations. With the wiggler switchyard, we are well positioned to realize the operation of a VUV FEL below 190 nm and production of Compton gamma-ray beams above 100 MeV in circular polarization.
 
 
TUPEA074 Protection of VUV FEL Mirrors using Soft Orbit Bump at Duke FEL/HIGS facility 1301
 
  • S.F. Mikhailov, H. Hao, J.Y. Li, V. Popov, P.W. Wallace, Y.K. Wu
    FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported in part by the US DoE grant # DE-FG02-97ER41033
The Duke FEL and High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS) facility is operated with an electron beam from 0.24 to 1.2 GeV and a photon beam from 190 to 1060 nm. Presently, the energy range of the gamma-beam is from 1 MeV to about 100 MeV, with the maximum total gamma-flux of more then 1010 gammas per second around 10 MeV. Production of high intensity, high energy gamma-beams of 60 to 100 MeV, using UV-VUV mirrors of 240 to 190 nm, requires high energy, high current electron beams of 0.9 to 1.05 GeV. Synchrotron radiation damage to the FEL mirrors becomes crucial for VUV FEL operation at or below 190 nm. The edge radiation (ER) from the End-of-Arc (EOA) bending magnet, instead of the radiation of FEL wigglers, is the dominant cause of a rapid degradation of the downstream FEL mirror. In this work, we describe a further development of the “soft” orbit bump concept to significantly reduce the radiation exposure to the mirror from the EOA dipole magnet. The bump uses designated "soft" orbit correctors with magnetic field limited to produce a radiation with a critical wavelength close or below the FEL wavelength.