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TUOCA02 | Status of the Free Electron Laser User Facility FLASH | 938 |
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FLASH, the Free Electron Laser User Facility at DESY (Hamburg, Germany), delivers high brilliance XUV and soft X-ray FEL radiation to photon experiments. After a shutdown to connect the second undulator beamline FLASH2 to the FLASH linac, re-commissioning of FLASH started in autumn 2013. The year 2014 is dedicated to FLASH1 user experiments. The commissioning of the FLASH2 beamline takes place in 2014 in parallel to FLASH1 operation. | ||
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-TUOCA02 | |
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WEPRO055 | Development of a Quasi 3-D Ellipsoidal Photo Cathode Laser System for PITZ | 2069 |
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Funding: Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project 05K10CHE in the framework of the German-Russian collaboration "Development and Use of Accelerator-Based Photon Sources". 3-D ellipsoidal photo cathode laser pulses are considered as the next step in optimization of photo injectors required for a successful operation of linac based free electron lasers. Significant improvements in electron beam emittance obtained from the beam dynamics simulations using such laser pulses compared to the conventional cylindrical pulses motivated the experimental studies in order to develop a laser system for quasi 3-D ellipsoidal pulses. The Institute of Applied Physics (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) in collaboration with the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) and the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ) is developing such a photo cathode laser system. Experimental tests of the laser system with photoelectron beam production are planned at PITZ. The laser pulse shaping is realized using the spatial light modulator technique. The laser system is capable of pulse train generation. First cross-correlation measurements were done demonstrating in principle the ability to generate and measure quasi ellipsoidal laser pulses. In this contribution the overall set-up, working principle and the actual progress of the development will be reported. |
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THPRO044 | Report on Gun Conditioning Activities at PITZ in 2013 | 2962 |
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Recently three RF guns were prepared at the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY, location Zeuthen (PITZ) for their subsequent operation at FLASH and the European XFEL. The gun 3.1 is a previous cavity design and is currently installed and operated at FLASH, the other two guns 4.3 and 4.4 were of the current cavity design and are dedicated to serve for the start-up of the European XFEL photo-injector. All three cavities had been dry-ice-cleaned prior their conditioning and hence showed low dark current levels. The lowest dark current level – as low as 60μA at 65MV/m field amplitude – has been observed for the gun 3.1. This paper reports in details about the conditioning process of the most recent gun 4.4. It informs about experience gained at PITZ during establishing of the RF conditioning procedure and provides a comparison with the other gun cavities in terms of the dark currents. It also summarizes the major setup upgrades, which have affected the conditioning processes of the cavities. | ||
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THPME116 | Studies on a Diagnostic Pulse for FLASH | 3506 |
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The long-term stability of the beam optics at FLASH is crucial for all connected experiments and the operation of the new second beamline FLASH2. It is therefore desirable to have a simple procedure to monitor the beam optics routinely and at the same time minimally invasive. This way user operation is not disturbed. An automated procedure, which has been successfully employed at the SLAC linac is presented in the context of FLASH. The betatron oscillations of selectively kicked pulses are recorded using BPMs at a fixed time interval. An online algorithm is then used to extract the betatron phase advance, as well as potential growth of the betatron oscillation amplitude and the Twiss parameters beta and alpha. Using this method, the long-term beam optics stability can be monitored in order to identify potential sources of drifts. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THPME116 | |
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