IPAC2017 - List of Authors (Neilson, J.)

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TUPAB136	Coupling and Polarization Control in a mm-wave Undulator	1647
	F. Toufexis, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: This project was funded by U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and the National Science Foundation under Contract No. PHY-1415437. To reduce the linac energy required for an FEL radiating at a given wavelength, and hence its size, a smaller undulator period with sufficient field strength is needed. Previous work from our group successfully demonstrated a microwave undulator at 11.424 GHz using a corrugated cylindrical waveguide operating in the HE11 mode. Scaling down the undulator period using this technology poses the challenge of confining and coupling the electromagnetic fields while maintaining overmoded features for power handling capability and electron beam wakefield mitigation. We have designed a mm-wave undulator cavity at 91.392 GHz. This undulator requires approximately 1.4 MW for sub-microsecond pulses to generate an equivalent K value of 0.1. Transferring such amounts of power in mm-wave frequencies requires overmoded corrugated waveguides, and coupling through irises creates excessive pulsed heating. We have designed a novel mode launcher that allows coupling power from a highly overmoded corrugated waveguide to the undulator through the beam pipe. Additionally, this mode launcher can be used along with grating polarizers to control the polarization of the produced light. F. Toufexis and S.G. Tantawi, A 1.75 mm Period RF-Driven Undulator, these proceedings.
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WEPAB138	Prototyping High-Gradient mm-Wave Accelerating Structures	2902
	E.A. Nanni, V.A. Dolgashev, A.A. Haase, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA S.C. Schaub MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA B. Spataro INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy R.J. Temkin MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
	We present single-cell accelerating structures designed for high-gradient testing at 110 GHz. The purpose of this work is to study the basic physics of ultrahigh vacuum RF breakdown in high-gradient RF accelerators. The accelerating structures are pi-mode standing-wave cavities fed with a TM01 circular waveguide. The structures are fabricated using precision milling out of two metal blocks, and the blocks are joined with diffusion bonding and brazing. The impact of fabrication and joining techniques on the cell geometry and RF performance will be discussed. First prototypes had a measured Qo of 2800, approaching the theoretical design value of 3300. The geometry of these accelerating structures are as close as practical to single-cell standing-wave X-band accelerating structures more than 40 of which were tested at SLAC. This wealth of X-band data will serve as a baseline for these 110 GHz tests. The structures will be powered with short pulses from a MW gyrotron oscillator. RF power of 1 MW may allow us to reach an accelerating gradient of 400 MeV/m.
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THPIK126	Design of a Field-Emission X-Band Gun Driven by Solid-State RF Source	4399
	E.A. Nanni, V.A. Dolgashev, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA B.E. Carlsten, J.W. Lewellen, D.C. Nguyen LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA M. Othman UCI, Irvine, California, USA
	We present the design of a field-emission X-band gun designed to be powered using a solid-state RF source. The source of the electron beam is a field emission nano-tip array. The RF gun is intended to be a beam source for 1 MeV solid-state driven linac for deployment on a satellite to map magnetic fields in the magnetosphere. The gun has to satisfy strict requirements on both average and peak power consumption, as well as rapid turn on time. In order to achieve low power consumption, the RF gun operates at relatively low accelerating gradient of 2 MeV/m. The beam exit energy is ~20 keV for an RF power 1.5 kW. Each cell of the RF gun is separately powered by commercially available, GaN high electron mobility transistors. In proof of principle experiments we successfully powered a 9.3 GHz accelerating cavity with a 100 W transistor and a 1% duty cycle.
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Coupling and Polarization Control in a mm-wave Undulator

1647

F. Toufexis, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: This project was funded by U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and the National Science Foundation under Contract No. PHY-1415437.
To reduce the linac energy required for an FEL radiating at a given wavelength, and hence its size, a smaller undulator period with sufficient field strength is needed. Previous work from our group successfully demonstrated a microwave undulator at 11.424 GHz using a corrugated cylindrical waveguide operating in the HE11 mode. Scaling down the undulator period using this technology poses the challenge of confining and coupling the electromagnetic fields while maintaining overmoded features for power handling capability and electron beam wakefield mitigation. We have designed a mm-wave undulator cavity at 91.392 GHz*. This undulator requires approximately 1.4 MW for sub-microsecond pulses to generate an equivalent K value of 0.1. Transferring such amounts of power in mm-wave frequencies requires overmoded corrugated waveguides, and coupling through irises creates excessive pulsed heating. We have designed a novel mode launcher that allows coupling power from a highly overmoded corrugated waveguide to the undulator through the beam pipe. Additionally, this mode launcher can be used along with grating polarizers to control the polarization of the produced light.
* F. Toufexis and S.G. Tantawi, A 1.75 mm Period RF-Driven Undulator, these proceedings.

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WEPAB138

Prototyping High-Gradient mm-Wave Accelerating Structures

2902

E.A. Nanni, V.A. Dolgashev, A.A. Haase, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
S.C. Schaub
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
B. Spataro
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
R.J. Temkin
MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

We present single-cell accelerating structures designed for high-gradient testing at 110 GHz. The purpose of this work is to study the basic physics of ultrahigh vacuum RF breakdown in high-gradient RF accelerators. The accelerating structures are pi-mode standing-wave cavities fed with a TM01 circular waveguide. The structures are fabricated using precision milling out of two metal blocks, and the blocks are joined with diffusion bonding and brazing. The impact of fabrication and joining techniques on the cell geometry and RF performance will be discussed. First prototypes had a measured Qo of 2800, approaching the theoretical design value of 3300. The geometry of these accelerating structures are as close as practical to single-cell standing-wave X-band accelerating structures more than 40 of which were tested at SLAC. This wealth of X-band data will serve as a baseline for these 110 GHz tests. The structures will be powered with short pulses from a MW gyrotron oscillator. RF power of 1 MW may allow us to reach an accelerating gradient of 400 MeV/m.

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THPIK126

Design of a Field-Emission X-Band Gun Driven by Solid-State RF Source

4399

E.A. Nanni, V.A. Dolgashev, J. Neilson, S.G. Tantawi
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
B.E. Carlsten, J.W. Lewellen, D.C. Nguyen
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
M. Othman
UCI, Irvine, California, USA

We present the design of a field-emission X-band gun designed to be powered using a solid-state RF source. The source of the electron beam is a field emission nano-tip array. The RF gun is intended to be a beam source for 1 MeV solid-state driven linac for deployment on a satellite to map magnetic fields in the magnetosphere. The gun has to satisfy strict requirements on both average and peak power consumption, as well as rapid turn on time. In order to achieve low power consumption, the RF gun operates at relatively low accelerating gradient of 2 MeV/m. The beam exit energy is ~20 keV for an RF power 1.5 kW. Each cell of the RF gun is separately powered by commercially available, GaN high electron mobility transistors. In proof of principle experiments we successfully powered a 9.3 GHz accelerating cavity with a 100 W transistor and a 1% duty cycle.

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