Efficient Terahertz Generation by Tilted-Pulse-Front Pumping in Lithium Niobate for the Split-Ring Resonator Experiment at FLUTE

A compact, longitudinal diagnostics for fs-scale electron bunches using a THz electric-field transient in a split-ring resonator (SRR) for streaking will be tested at the Ferninfrarot Linac- Und Test- Experiment (FLUTE). For this new streaking technique, intensive THz pulses are required, which will be generated by laser-based optical rectification. We present a setup for generating THz pulses using tilted-pulse-front pumping in lithium niobate at room temperature. Excited by an 800 nm Ti:Sa pump laser with 35 fs bandwidth-limited pulse length, conversion efficiencies up to 0.027% were achieved. Furthermore, the status of the SRR experiment is shown

Engineering Design of a Multipurpose X-band Accelerating Structure

Both FEL projects, SwissFEL and Fermi-Elettra each require an X-band RF accelerating structure for optimal bunch compression at the respective injectors. As the CLIC project is pursuing a program for producing and testing the X-band high-gradient RF structures, a collaboration between PSI, Elettra and CERN has been established to build a multipurpose X-band accelerating structure. This paper focuses on its engineering design, which is based on the disked cells jointed together by diffusion bonding. Vacuum brazing and laser beam welding is used for auxiliary components. The accelerating structure consists of two coupler subassemblies, 73 disks and includes a wakefield monitor and diagnostic waveguides. The engineering study includes the external cooling system, consisting of two parallel cooling circuits and an RF tuning system, which allows phase advance tuning of the cell by deforming the outer wall. The engineering solution for the installation and sealing of the wake field monitor feed-through devices that are integrated in the accelerating structure are presente

Single Bunch Wakefields in the CERN-PSI-ELETTRA X-band Linear Accelerator

FERMI@ELETTRA and PSI-XFEL are 4th Generation Light Sources that require high quality electron beam at the entrance of the undulator chains. In this context, a specially developed X-band structure with integrated alignment monitors will be used to mitigate the nonlinearities in the longitudinal phase space due to the second order RF time curvature and the second order momentum compaction term of chicane compressor. The knowledge of the transverse and longitudinal short range wakefields in the X-band structure is essential to evaluate the beam quality in terms of longitudinal energy spread and transverse kick spread. We have used the ABCI code to numerically evaluate the transverse and longitudinal wake potentials for short bunches in this structur