Author: Swift, G.
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TUOCS6 An VUV FEL for Producing Circularly Polarized Compton Gamma-ray Beams in the 70 to 100 MeV Region 778
 
  • Y.K. Wu, J.Y. Li, S.F. Mikhailov, V. Popov, G. Swift, P.W. Wallace, W. Wu
    FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  • S. Huang
    PKU/IHIP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: This work is supported in part by the US DOE grant no. DE-FG02-97ER41033.
Recently, the Duke optical klystron FEL (OK-5 FEL) has been commissioned to produce lasing in the VUV region (191 - 193 nm), overcoming substantial laser cavity loss due to low reflectivity of the VUV FEL mirrors. With two OK-5 FEL wigglers separated by more than 20 meters in a non-optimal configuration, an adequate FEL gain was realized by operating the Duke storage ring with a high single-bunch current (30 to 50 mA). This VUV FEL has enabled us to produce circularly polarized Compton gamma-ray beams in the 70 to 100 MeV region at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS), Duke University. This high energy gamma-ray beam capability will create new opportunities for both fundamental and applied research at HIGS. In this work, we report our experience of VUV FEL lasing with a high single-bunch current and first production of gamma-ray beams in the 70 to 100 MeV region.
 
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