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| TUPMS038 | Recent Upgrade to the Free-electron Laser Code Genesis 1.3 | 1269 |
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| The time-dependent code GENESIS 1.3 has be modified to address new problems in modeling Free-electron Lasers. The functionality has been extended to include higher harmonics and to allow for a smoother modeling of cascading FELs. The code has been also exported to a parallel computer architecture for faster execution using the MPI protocol. | ||
| TUPMS039 | Coherence Properties of the LCLS X-ray Beam | 1272 |
| Self-amplifying spontaneous radiation free-electron lasers, such as the LCLS or the European X-FEL, rely on the incoherent, spontaneous radiation as the seed for the amplifying process. Though this method overcomes the need for an external seed source one drawback is the incoherence of the effective seed signal. The FEL process allows for a natural growth of the coherence because the radiation phase information is spread out within the bunch due to slippage and diffraction of the radiation field. However, at short wavelengths this spreading is not sufficient to achieve complete coherence. In this presentation we report on the results of numerical simulations of the LCLS X-ray FEL. From the obtained radiation field distribution the coherence properties are extracted to help to characterize the FEL as a light source. | ||
| TUPMS033 | Chicane Radiation Measurements with a Compressed Electron Beam at the BNL ATF | 1254 |
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| The radiation emitted from a chicane compressor has been studied at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). Coherent edge radiation (CER)is emitted from a compressed electron beam as it traverses sharp edge regions of a magnet. The compression is accompanied by strong self-fields, which are manifested as distortions in the momentum space called beam bifurcation. Recent measurements indicate that the bunch length is approximately 100 fs rms. The emitted THz chicane radiation displays strong signatures of CER. This paper reports on the experimental characterization and subsequent analysis of the chicane radiation measurements at the BNL ATF with a discussion of diagnostics development and implementation. The characterization includes spectral analysis, far-field intensity distribution, and polarization effects. Experimental data is benchmarked to a custom developed start-to-end simulation suite. | ||
| TUPMS034 | Seeded VISA: A 1064 nm Laser-Seeded FEL Amplifier at the BNL ATF | 1257 |
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| An experimental study of a seeded free electron laser (FEL) using the VISA undulator and a Nd:YAG seed laser will be performed at the Accelerator Test Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The study is motivated by the demand for a short Rayleigh length FEL amplifier at 1 micron for high power transmission with minimal damage of transport optics. Planned measurements include transverse and longitudinal coherence, angular distribution, and wavelength spectrum of the FEL radiation. The effects of detuning the electron beam energy will be studied, with an emphasis on control of the radiation emission angles and increase of the amplifier efficiency. Results of start-to-end simulations will be presented with preliminary experimental results. | ||
| TUPMS037 | Simulation of an Iris-guided Inverse Free-electron Laser Micro-bunching Experiment | 1266 |
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| The Free-Electron Laser code Genesis 1.3 has been modified to include waveguides within the undulator, reducing the diffraction effects for long wavelength FELs. Several types of waveguides are considered, which are rectangular and circular waveguides as well as iris-loaded open waveguides. Studies are presented here on the enhancement of FEL and IFEL with these wave-guiding structures in comparison to free-space propagation of the radiation wave. | ||
| TUPMN039 | Status of the SPARC-X Project | 1001 |
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| SPARC-X is a two branch project consisting in the SPARC test facility dedicated to the development and test of critical subsystems such as high brightness photoinjector and a modular expandable undulator for SASE-FEL experiments at 500 nm with seeding, and the SPARX facility aiming at generation of high brightness coherent radiation in the 3-13 nm range, based on the achieved expertise. The projects are supported by MIUR (Research Department of Italian Government) and Regione Lazio. SPARC has completed the commissioning phase of the photoinjector in November 2006. The achieved experimental results are here summarized together with the status of the second phase commissioning plans. The SPARX project is based on the generation of ultrahigh peak brightness electron beams at the energy of 1 and 2 GeV generating radiation in the 3-13 nm range. The construction is at the moment planned in two steps starting with a 1 GeV Linac. The project layout including both RF-compression and magnetic chicane techniques has been studied and compared, together with the feasibility of a mixed s-band and x-band linac option. | ||
| THPAS054 | QUINDI - A Code to Simulate Coherent Emission from Bending Systems | 3612 |
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| With this, we present a newly developed code, QUINDI, to address the numerical challenge of calculating the radiation spectra from electron bunches in bending magnet systems. This provides a better tool for designing diagnostic systems such as bunch length monitors in magnetic chicanes. The program calculates emission on a first principle basis, combining the dominant emission processes in a bending magnet system - edge and synchrotron radiation. The core algorithm is based on the Lienard-Wiechert potential and utilizes parallel computer architecture to cover complete electron beam distributions with a high resolution spatial grid. The program is aimed towards long frequency components to model the coherence level of the emitted radiation from the electron bunch. | ||
| THPAS087 | ACCELVIEW: A Graphical Means for Driving Integrated Numerical Experiments | 3687 |
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Funding: Work supported by the US Department of Energy. Many simulation efforts make use of integrated numerical experiments, where the inputs and outputs of several accelerator codes are tied together. This is usually accomplished by writing custom scripts that launch the underlying programs and perform data format translation. We present a way to simplify this process by using a graphical user interface that allows one to describe the data flow in the style of the LabVIEW and Simulink environments. A module to support a new accelerator code involves writing data translators to/from a common format (SDDS or HDF5), and a function to generate an input file based on a standard way of specifying an accelerator lattice (such as Accelerator Markup Language, or AML). |