Author: Pellegrini, C.
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WEXA01 Challenges of 4th Generation Light Sources 3798
 
  • C. Pellegrini
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • C. Pellegrini
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  In the last few years Free Electron Lasers (FELs) have emerged as exceptionally exciting tools for new science. The results from FLASH (Hamburg) on biological imaging, LCLS (Stanford) which generated the first hard X-ray lasing and the projects proposed or in costruction around the world are rapidly moving the scientific community to the so called “fast science” which demands ultrashort pulses, fs synchronization, high brightness, high coherence X-rays. The basic SASE FEL process used so far converts energy jitter into jitter of the centralwavelength. Processes based on seeding and HGHG seem to offer a number of advantages in terms of bandwidth, coherence, stability and undulator length. This talk will present an overview of the 4th generation light sources, discussing the main challenges afforded in the construction of the operating facilities and considering the trends for the development of future facilities.  
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THPC183 Application of the Balanced Hybrid Mode in Overmoded Corrugated Waveguides to Short Wavelength Dynamic Undulators 3326
 
  • S.G. Tantawi, G.B. Bowden, C. Chang, J. Neilson, M. Shumail
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • C. Pellegrini
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work Supported by the US Department of Energy
Inspired by recent developments in low-loss overmoded components and systems for ultra-high power RF systems, we explored several overmoded waveguide systems that could function as RF undulators. One promising structure is a corrugated waveguide system operating at the hybrid HE11 mode. This is a new application for that mode. Initial calculations indicate that such a system can be operated at relatively low power levels while obtaining large values for the undulator parameters. RF surface fields are typically low enough to permit superconducting operation. This technology could realize an undulator with short wavelengths and also dynamic control of the undulator parameters including polarization. We introduce the scaling laws governing such a structures, and then show with exact simulations an undulator design that have a wavelength of about 1.4 cm with an undulator parameter K~1. This undulator is intended to be powered by a 50 MW source at a frequency of 11.4 GHz. We describe the experimental setup for testing such a technology.