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RIS citation export for TUPSA012: Superconducting Stored Energy RF Linac as Free Electron Laser Driver

TY - CONF
AU - Kurakin, V.G.
AU - Kurakin, P.V.
ED - Kuzin, Maxim
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - Superconducting Stored Energy RF Linac as Free Electron Laser Driver
J2 - Proc. of RuPAC2016, St. Petersburg, Russia, November 21-25, 2016
C1 - St. Petersburg, Russia
T2 - Russian Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 25
LA - english
AB - Due to cavity losses in multi pass free electron laser (FEL), generation starts in it from definite threshold of driving electron beam current. Depending on generation wave range the threshold current strikes from fraction of ampere to dozens of amperes. In order to rich laser saturation, from hundreds to thousands electron bunches are required. Simple estimations give the value from units up to tens joules of bunches train energy in order to rich FEL saturation for infrared wave range (approximately 20 - 25 MeV of bunches energy and 3 A of pick current, bunch length being 1 cm). A beam with parameters mentioned might be obtained in rf superconducting linac operating in stored energy mode. The advantage of such approach is simplified linac power supply since dozens watts cw rf generator is required only to rich necessary accelerating voltage. At the same time the energy spread arising from beam loading may be compensated by additional cavities exited at shifted frequencies. In this paper Maxwell equations are used for beam-cavity interaction analysis. The bunch energy loss or the same the voltage induced by radiating bunch is expressed in terms of cavity external parameters. The detailed analysis of beam energy spread compensation is carried out followed by an example showing the reality of FEL schema suggested.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 237
EP - 239
KW - cavity
KW - electron
KW - FEL
KW - linac
KW - laser
DA - 2017/02
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-181-6
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-RuPAC2016-TUPSA012
UR - http://jacow.org/rupac2016/papers/tupsa012.pdf
ER -