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Krishnagopal, S.

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TUPMA038 Start-up of an FEL Oscillator from Shot Noise 163
 
  • V. Kumar, S. Krishnagopal
    RRCAT, Indore (M. P.)
  • W. M. Fawley
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
 
  In free-electron laser (FEL) oscillators, as in self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) FELs, the build-up of intra-cavity power starts from shot noise resulting from the discreteness of charge in the electron bunch. It is important to do the start-up analysis for the build-up of intracavity power in order to fix the macropulse width from the electron accelerator such that the system reaches saturation. In this paper, we show that one can use the time-dependent oscillator code GINGER [1] to perform this anlysis. we present results of this analysis for the parameters of the Compact Ultrafast TErahertz FEL (CUTE-FEL) [2] being built at RRCAT.

1. W. Fawley, 'A user Manual for GINGER and Its Post-Processor XPLOTGIN}},LBNL-49625-Rev. I' ed., Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (2004).2. S. Krishnagopal et al., Proceedings of FEL conference (2006) 496.

 
WEPMA111 Mechanical Engineering Challenges in the Development of the FEL at RRCAT 479
 
  • S. Chouksey, S. Krishnagopal, V. Kumar, S. Lal, K. K. Pant, V. Prasad
    RRCAT, Indore (M. P.)
 
  The Compact Ultrafast TErahertz Free-Electron Laser (CUTE-FEL) is being developed by BP&FEL Laboratory, RRCAT, which is designed to lase around 80 mm. Sub-systems like S-band high gradient accelerating structures, pre-buncher, buncher, pure permanent undulator etc. have already been developed and others are in advanced stage of fabrication/commissioning. In this paper we present the design, fabrication, measurements and status of various prototype developments of structures.  
WEPMA112 Thermal Simulations of a Photocathode R. F. Gun 482
 
  • B. Biswas, S. Krishnagopal, A. Kumar, S. Lal, K. K. Pant
    RRCAT, Indore (M. P.)
 
  We are developing a photocathode linac, which uses a 2856 MHz r.f. gun, with a copper cathode driven by a 102 MHz, 266 nm laser at inclined incidence. The laser photocathode r.f. gun is a 1.6 cell BNL/SLAC/UCLA type III r.f. gun. In this paper we present the dynamic thermal cooling simulations to calculate the structural deformations and consequent frequency drift of the gun. We have done a complete r.f.-thermal-structural-r.f finite-element analysis (FEA) of the gun in that order, using ANSYS/MULTIPHYSICS. We find that with the present coolant channel design the gun can operate at up to 2 Hz without any significant change in resonant frequency and field balance.