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Gerth, C.

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TUPEA041 Drift Calibration Techniques for Future FELs 1419
 
  • F. Ludwig, C. Gerth, K.E. Hacker, M. Hoffmann, G. Moeller, P. Morozov, Ch. Schmidt
    DESY, Hamburg
  • W. Jalmuzna
    TUL-DMCS, Łódź
 
 

Future FELs (Free-Electron-Lasers) requires a precise detection of the cavity field in the injector section with a resolution of much less than 0.01 deg in phase and 0.01% in amplitude for a cavity operation frequency at 1.3GHz. Long-term stable SASE (Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission) operation mainly suffers from injector accelerator components and the stability of the reference distribution. Especially thermal instabilities of the distributed cavity field detectors, probe pickup cables and their mechanical vibrations influence the energy stability dramatically on a scale of 0.1%, a scale which is 10 times worse than required. To eliminate the long-term amplitude and phase changes, we injected a reference signal prior to the arrival of the cavity field signal. This enabled pulse-to-pulse calibration which compensated for the drifts of the field detectors. We demonstrated a dramatic phase and amplitude stability improvement from the ps-range to the 0.008 deg (peak-to-peak) range in phase and 0.02% (peak-to-peak) in amplitude; this represents an improvement in drifts by a factor of about 100. The injected calibration was successfully employed during FLASH operation.

 
THPD003 Test and Commissioning of the Third Harmonic RF System for FLASH 4281
 
  • E. Vogel, C. Albrecht, N. Baboi, C. Behrens, T. Delfs, J. Eschke, C. Gerth, M.G. Hoffmann, M. Hoffmann, M. Hüning, R. Jonas, J. Kahl, D. Kostin, G. Kreps, F. Ludwig, W. Maschmann, C. Mueller, P. Nommensen, J. Rothenburg, H. Schlarb, Ch. Schmidt, J.K. Sekutowicz
    DESY, Hamburg
  • H.T. Edwards, E.R. Harms, A. Hocker, T.N. Khabiboulline
    Fermilab, Batavia
  • M. Kuhn
    Uni HH, Hamburg
 
 

Ultra short bunches with high peak current are required for efficient creation of high brilliance coherent light at the free electron laser FLASH. They are obtained by a two stage transverse magnetic chicane bunch compression scheme based on acceleration of the beam off the rf field crest. The deviation of the rf field's sine shape from a straight line leads to long bunch tails and reduces the peak current. This effect will be eliminated by adding the Fermilab-built third harmonic superconducting accelerating module operating at 3.9 GHz to linearize the rf field. The third harmonic module also allows for the creation of uniform intensity bunches of adjustable length that is needed for seeded operation. This paper summarizes the results from the first complete rf system test at the crymodule test bench at DESY and the first experience gained operating the system with beam in FLASH.