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| WE2003 |
LLRF Systems for Modern Linacs: Design and Performance
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Near-future linac projects put yet unreached requirements on the LLRF control hardware in both performance and manageability. Meeting their field stability targets requires a clear identification of all critical items along the LLRF control loop as well as knowledge of fundamental limitations. Large-scale systems demand for extended automation concepts. The experience gained with present systems as well as dedicated experiments deliver the basis for a design of future systems. Digital hardware has evolved quickly over the past years and FPGAs became common not only in LLRF control. A high degree of digitization in various fields, as for example beam diagnostics, suggests to aim for a convergence of the digital platform designs. Channeling of efforts of different research laboratories may be the key to an affordable solution that meets all requirements and has a broad range of applications.
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| THP001 |
Conceptual LLRF Design for the European X-FEL
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- S. Simrock, V. Ayvazyan, A. Brandt, M. Huening, W. Koprek, F. Ludwig, K. Rehlich, E. Vogel, H. C. Weddig
DESY, Hamburg
- M. K. Grecki, T. Jezynski
TUL-DMCS, Lodz
- W. J. Jalmuzna
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw
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The LLRF System for the superconducting cavities of the European X-FEL must support an amplitude and phase stability of the accelerating fields of up to 0.01% and 0.01 deg. respectively. The stability must be achieved in pulsed operation with one klystron driving 32 cavities. This goal can only be achieved with low noise downconverters for field detection, high gain feedback loops and sophisticated feedforward techniques. State-of-the art technology including analog multipliers for downconversion, fast ADCs (>100 MHz) with high resolution (up to 16 bit), and high performance data processing with FPGAs with low latency (few hundred ns) allow to meets these goals. The large number of input channels ( >100 including probe, forward and reflected signal of each of the 32 cavities) and output channels (>34 including piezo tuners for each cavity) combined with the tremendous processing power requires a distributed architecture using Gigalink interfaces for low latency data exchange.
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| THP005 |
Digital Control of Cavity Fields in the Spallation Neutron Source Superconducting Linac
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- H. Ma, M. S. Champion, M. T. Crofford, K.-U. Kasemir, M. F. Piller
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- A. Brandt
DESY, Hamburg
- L. R. Doolittle, A. Ratti
LBNL, Berkeley, California
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Control of the pulsed RF cavity fields in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) superconducting Linac uses both the real-time feedback regulation and the pulse-to-pulse adaptive feed-forward compensation. This control combination is required to deal with the typical issues associated with superconducting cavities, such as the Lorentz force detuning, mechanical resonance modes, and cavity filling. The all-digital implementation of this system provides the capabilities and flexibility necessary for achieving the required performance, and to accommodate the needs of various control schemes. The low-latency design of the digital hardware has successfully produced a wide control bandwidth, and the developed adaptive feed forward algorithms have proved to be essential for the controlled cavity filling, the suppression of the cavity mechanical resonances, and the beam loading compensation. As of this time, all 96 LLRF systems throughout the Linac have been commissioned and are in operation.
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