Author: Aizawa, S.
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THPC142 Burst Pulse Superimposed Electron Beam Acceleration in LEBRA FEL Linac 3218
 
  • T. Tanaka, K. Hayakawa, Y. Hayakawa, M. Inagaki, K. Nakao, K. Nogami, N. Sato
    LEBRA, Funabashi, Japan
  • S. Aizawa, Y. Arisumi, K. Shinohara
    Nihon Koshuha Co. Ltd, Yokohama, Japan
  • I. Sato
    Nihon University, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, Funabashi, Japan
 
  The electron beam for free electron laser (FEL) at the Laboratory for Electron Beam Research and Application (LEBRA) in Nihon University had been extracted from a conventional DC triode electron gun system. In conjunction with the renewal of the gun high voltage terminal a Kentech high-speed grid pulser was installed in addition to the conventional grid pulser. The 89.25MHz sine wave frequency-divided from the 2856MHz accelerating RF has been applied to the high-speed grid pulser, generating 64 or 128 frequency-divided grid pulses synchronous with the round-trip time in the FEL optical resonator. The high-speed grid pulses have been applied to the EIMAC Y646B cathode simultaneously with the conventional macropulse through the pulse coupling strip-line circuit; the resultant beam has been the short pulse beam superimposed on the macropulse beam. By reducing the macropulse voltage, only the train of the burst beam with 0.6ns width has been extracted. The peak burst beam current roughly 6 times higher than the conventional macropulse beam has been obtained with the Farady cup at the end of the FEL beamline. The FEL lasing experiment with the burst beam is underway.