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| MOPKF035 | Stabilization of the Pulsed Regimes on Storage Ring Free Electron Laser: The Cases of Super-ACO and Elettra | 381 |
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In a Storage Ring Free Electron Laser (SRFEL) a relativistic electron beam interacts with the magnetostatic periodic field of an undulator, thus emitting synchrotron radiation. The light is stored in an optical cavity and amplified during successive turns of the particles in the ring. The laser intensity may appear as a "continuous wave (cw)" or show a stable pulsed behaviour depending on the value of the temporal detuning, i.e. the difference between the electron beam revolution period and the round trip of the photons in the cavity. It was recently shown, that the loss of stability in a SRFEL occurs through an Hopf bifurcation [*]. This observation opens up the perspective of introducing a derivative self-controlled feedback to suppress locally the bifurcation and enlarge the region of stable signal. A feedback of this type has been implemented on Super-ACO and shown to produce a significant and reproducible extension of the stable "cw" region. We review here these results and discuss new experiments performed on the Super-ACO and ELETTRA SRFELs.
* G. De Ninno and D. Fanelli, Phys. Rev. Lett. in press; M.E. Couprie et al. Nucl. Instrum.and Meth. A., in press |