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FR101 | 8-GeV C-Band Accelerator Construction for XFEL/SPring-8 | 1090 |
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The 8 GeV C-band electron linear accelerator is under construction at the SPring-8 site aiming at generating an FEL X-ray beam in 2010. C-band accelerator technology has been developed initially at KEK for the e+e- linear collider project, and employed at the XFEL project in Japan. Since C-band generates a high gradient acceleration field as high as 35 MV/m, the total length of the accelerator fits within 400 m, including the injector and three bunch compressors. C-band uses normal conducting rf technology, thus it runs in pulse mode at 60 Hz, which is well suited to XFEL operation and is less expensive. The talk will cover the current status of the XFEL project and hardware production. |
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FR102 | Commissioning of the LCLS Linac | 1095 |
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Funding: This work was supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 |
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FR103 | Operation of FLASH as an FEL User Facility | 1100 |
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FLASH, the FEL user facility at DESY, is operated with an electron beam energy up to 1 GeV corresponding to a photon wavelength down to 6.5 nm. The full year 2008 is dedicated to beam operation: about half of the time is scheduled for FEL users, and the rest for accelerator and FEL physics studies. Operational experience gathered at FLASH is very important not only for further improvements of the FLASH facility itself, but also for the European XFEL and for the ILC R&D effort. This talk reports our experience operating FLASH as a user facility. Failure statistics are included as well. |
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FR104 | Review of Advanced Laser Technologies for Photocathode High-Brightness Guns | 1105 |
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I developed a 3-D pulse shaping system in UV as an ideal laser for yearlong stable photoinjector. At SPring-8, the laser's pulse-energy stability has been improved to 0.7~1.4% at the UV (263 nm) under the laser environmental control included humidity. In addition, the ideal spatial and temporal profiles of an UV-laser pulse are essential to suppress emittance growth in an rf gun. I apply a deformable mirror that automatically shapes the spatial profile with a feedback routine, based on a genetic algorithm, and a pulse stacking system consisting of three birefringence Alpha-BBO crystal rods for temporal shaping at the same time. The 3D shape of the laser pulse is spatially top-hat (flattop) and temporally a square stacked chirped pulse. Using a 3D-shaped laser pulse with diameter of 0.8 mm on the cathode and pulse duration of 10 ps (FWHM), we obtain a normalized emittance of 1.4 pi mm mrad with a beam energy of 26 MeV. To keep the mirror away from beam axis, I developed a new hollow laser incidence with an axicon final focusing. Furthermore, I am developing a laser-induced Schottky-effect-gated photocathode gun using Z-polarization of the laser source with the hollow incidence. |
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FR105 | Billion Particle Linac Simulations for Future Light Sources | 1110 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC03-76SF00098. |
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