IUAC, New Delhi, India
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
HZDR, Dresden, Germany
VECC, Kolkata, India
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
The first phase of the pre-bunched FEL based on the Photoinjector RF electron gun, known as Delhi Light Source (DLS),* has been planned at Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi. The electron gun made from OFHC copper had already been fabricated and tested with low power RF at KEK, Japan. The beam optics calculation by using ASTRA, GPT codes has been performed and radiation produced from the pre-bunched electron bunches are being calculated.** The high power RF systems will be commissioned at IUAC by the beginning of 2018. The design of the laser system is being finalized and assembly/testing of the complete laser system will be started soon at KEK. The initial design of the photocathode deposition mechanism has also been completed and its procurement/development process will start shortly. The first version of the undulator magnet design has been completed and further improvements are underway.*** The initial arrangements of the DLS beam line have been worked out and various beam diagnostics components are being finalised. The production of the electron beam and THz radiation is expected by 2018 and 2019, respectively.
* S. Ghosh et al., NIM-B, (2017) in press.
** V. Joshi et al., Proc. of this conference.
*** S. Tripathi et al., Proc. of this conference.
IUAC, New Delhi, India
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
HZDR, Dresden, Germany
The development of a compact light source facility, Delhi Light Source (DLS), based on a pre-bunched free electron laser, has been initiated at Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC).* A photocathode-based normal conducting RF gun will generate a low-emittance 'comb' electron beam with a maximum energy of ~8 MeV which when injected into ~ 1.5 metre compact undulator magnet (~0.4 < Krms < ~2) will produce intense THz radiation in the frequency range of 0.15 THz to 3.0 THz.** Each microbunch of the electron beam is expected to emit super-radiant radiation, and an enhancement in the overall spectral power can be achieved if the frequency (inverse of the spatial separation) of the electron microbunches coincides with that of the THz radiation being emitted. There will be provisions to vary the spatial separation between the successive microbunches of the 'comb' beam so that by varying the undulator magnetic field and/or electron energy, the THz frequency range can be tuned. The results of the beam optics for the entire range of frequencies mentioned above along with the detailed information of the radiation to be generated from the facility will be presented in the paper.
* S. Ghosh et al., NIMB-2017, in press.
** S.Tripathi et al., Proc. of this conference.