Author: Feng, J.
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WEP222 Low Energy Beam Diagnostic for APEX, the LBNL VHF Photo-injector 1903
 
  • D. Filippetto, J.M. Byrd, M.J. Chin, C.W. Cork, S. De Santis, L.R. Doolittle, J. Feng, W.E. Norum, C. F. Papadopoulos, G.J. Portmann, D.G. Quintas, F. Sannibale, M.E. Stuart, R.P. Wells, M.S. Zolotorev
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the Director of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract no. DEAC02-05CH11231
A high-repetition rate (MHz-class), high-brightness electron beam photo-gun is under construction at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the framework of the Advanced Photo-injector EXperiment (APEX). The injector gun is based on a normal conducting 187 MHz RF cavity operating in CW mode. In its first operational phase it will deliver short bunches (~ 1 to tens of picoseconds) with energy of 750keV, and bunch charges ranging from 1pC to 1nC. Different high efficiency cathode materials will be tested, and the beam quality will be studied as a function of parameters as charge, initial bunch length and transverse size, focusing strength. Both the laser and electron beam diagnostics have been designed to assure the needed flexibility. In particular a high-resolution electron diagnostic section after the photo-gun provides the necessary dynamical range for scanned beam parameters: energy and energy spread, charge and current, transverse and longitudinal phase spaces, slice properties. The photo-gun electron beam diagnostic layout is presented, and the hardware choices, resolution and achievable dynamical ranges are also discussed.
 
 
THP222 Drive Laser System for the Advanced Photo-Injector Project at the LBNL 2537
 
  • J. Feng, D. Filippetto, H.A. Padmore, F. Sannibale, R.P. Wells
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • M. J. Messerly, M.A. Prantil
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the Director of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract no. DEAC02-05CH11231.
The electron photo-gun of the Advanced Photo-injector EXperiment project (APEX) at the LBNL will be driven by a compact fiber laser for different photo-cathode experiments during the initial phase of the project. The fiber laser, developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is designed to deliver μJ/pulse at 1064 nm system that is frequency doubled to deliver light at 532nm with 1MHz repetition rate and 1ps pulse length optimized for photo-emission with multi-alkali antimonide cathodes. For Cs2Te and diamond amplifier cathodes, the 4th harmonic will be generated by doubling frequency again in a non-linear crystal. Due to the requirement of small emittance for the electron beam, the laser pulse will be shaped in space and time for 532nm and UV lights, in general with a constant intensity in cross section with a sharp radial cutoff, and elliptical or rectangular distribution in the longitudinal plane. Diagnostics of the laser beam itself and of the cathode will be integrated with techniques such as cross- correlation, streak camera, and virtual cathode imaging, not only to monitor the laser pulse but also to provide automated feedbacks.