Author: Duris, J.P.
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MOOBN2 Inverse Free Electron Laser Accelerators for Driving Compact Light Sources and Detection Applications 1
 
  • A.M. Tremaine, S. Boucher, A.Y. Murokh
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • S.G. Anderson
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
  • W.J. Brown
    MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • J.P. Duris, P. Musumeci, J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • I. Jovanovic
    Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
  • I. Pogorelsky, M.N. Polyanskiy, V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Because of the broad application space for compact, 1-2 GeV accelerators, Inverse Free Electron Lasers (IFELs) are enjoying a rebirth of R&D funding. The efforts are under way in industry (RadiaBeam), academia (UCLA), and national laboratories (LLNL and BNL) to develop an ultra-compact IFEL energy booster for the photoinjector driven linear accelerating systems. The RUBICON collaboration integrates many of the institutions for proof-of-principle IFEL driven Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) compact light source demonstrations. IFELs perform optimally in this mid-energy range, and given continual advances in laser technology, high average power IFELs with gradients well over 500 MeV/m are now feasible, leading to high quality, compact ICS and Free Electron Laser light sources. Importantly, IFEL operation can have excellent shot-to-shot energy stability, which is crucial when not only driving these light sources, but also for the downstream applications such as photofission, nuclear resonance fluorescence and standoff detection.
 
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MOP102 High-Gradient High-Energy-Gain Inverse Free Electron Laser Experiment using a Helical Undulator 289
 
  • J.P. Duris, R.K. Li, P. Musumeci, E.W. Threlkeld, M.T. Westfall
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  Funding: UC Lab fee award 09-LR-04-117055-MUSP DOE-HEP grant DE-FG02-92ER40693 Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Basic Research Award # HDTRA1-10-1-0073
Preparations for a high energy gain inverse free electron laser (IFEL) experiment using an undulator and Brookhaven National Lab’s (BNL) Accelerator Test Facility’s (ATF) terawatt CO2 laser are underway. 3D simulations suggest that the experiment will likely accelerate a 50 MeV beam to 117 MeV in 54 cm while maintaining a low energy spread. The helical undulator is currently under construction at UCLA’s Particle Beam Physics Laboratory.