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| TUPMN028 | The New Photoinjector for the Fermi Project | 974 |
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| FERMI@ELETTRA is a single-pass FEL user facility covering the spectral range 100 10 nm. It will be located near the Italian third generation Synchrotron Light Source facility ELETTRA and will make use of the existing 1.0 GeV normal conducting Linac. To obtain the high beam brightness required by the project, the present Linac electron source will be substituted with a photocathode RF gun now under development in the framework of a collaboration between Sincrotrone Trieste (ST) and Particle Beam Physics Laboratory (PBPL) at UCLA. The new gun will use an improved design of the 1.6 cell accelerating structure already developed at PBPL, scaled to 2998 MHz. We expect that the new gun design will allow a beam brightness increase by a factor 3-4 over the older version of the device. Some technical choices of the new design, including the enhancement of the mode separation, removal of the RF tuners, full cell symmetrization to limit the dipole and quadrupole RF field as well as an improved solenoid yoke design for multipole field corrections, will be discussed. | ||
| TUPMN029 | Linac Upgrading Program for the Fermi Project : Status and Perspectives | 977 |
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| FERMI@ELETTRA is a soft X-ray forth generation light source under development at the ELETTRA laboratory. It will be based on the existing 1.0 GeV Linac, revised and upgraded to fulfil the stringent requirements expected from the machine. The overall time schedule of the project is very tight and ambitious, foreseeing to supply 10 nm photons to users within 2010. Here the machine upgrading program and the ongoing activities are presented and discussed. | ||
| TUPMN032 | The New Elettra Booster Injector | 983 |
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| The new full energy injector for Elettra is under construction. The complex is made of a 100 MeV linac and a 2.5 GeV synchrotron, at 3 Hz repetition rate. With the new injector top-up operation shall be feasible. In the first semester of 2007 the machine assembly has been performed. In Summer 2007 the commissioning is scheduled, while in Fall 2007 the connection to the Storage Ring is planned. The status of the project will be reported in this paper. | ||
| WEPMN116 | Plans for Precision RF Controls for FERMI@ELETTRA | 2310 |
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| FERMI@ELETTRA is a 4th generation light source under construction at Sincrotrone Trieste. It will be operated as a seeded FEL driven by a warm S-band linac presently serving as the injector for the ELETTRA storage ring. Operation as an FEL driver places much more stringent specifications on control of the amplititude and phase of the RF stations than in its present operation. This paper describes a conceptual design of an upgrade to the RF controls to achieve these specifications. The system consists of a stabilized distribution of the master oscillator signal providing a reference to local digital RF controllers . The RF reference distribution system takes advantage of recent breakthroughs in optical techniques where stabilized fiber lasers are used to provide a very accurate control of RF phases over long distances. The RF controller is based on recent improvements on modern digital systems, using a 14-bit high speed digitizer in combination with an FPGA and high speed DAC. This paper also presents experimental results of early tests performed as a feasibility study of the system. | ||
| WEPMS045 | Power Modulators for FERMI Linac's Klystrons. | 2448 |
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The conventional line type modulators used for ELETTRA will have to be replaced for FERMI due to the increase in the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) from 10 to 50 Hz. The requirements for the FERMI modulator are as follows. The klystron used is a Thales TH2132 with a microperviance of 1.9-2.1 uA/V**(3/2). The peak voltage from the modulator is 320 kV, and the current is 350 A. The pulse width is 4.5 us, with a PRF of 50 Hz. Flat top should be better than ?0.5 % of the peak voltage. Prototypes for an upgraded line type modulator and a solid state induction type modulator[1] are in fabrication. The solid state design uses eight induction cells, each cell driven by two parallel Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT). Each IGBT will power a METGLAS 2605CO core with 4 kV and 3 kA for up to 5 us. A single turn is passed through the aperture of each of the cells, inductively adding the pulse voltages. The output from the modulator is then fed to a conventional pulse transformer to reach the 320 kV requirement. This paper presents the system design of both modulator types as well as details of the IGBT drivers, control electronics, IGBT and klystron protection and test data.
1. "NLC Hybrdi Solid State Induction Modulator" R. L. Cassel, etal, Lubeck, Germany, Linac 2004. |