16 research outputs found
Testing and Implementation Progress on the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Linear Accelerator (Linac) High-Power S-band Switching System
An S-band linear accelerator is the source of particles and the front end of
the Advanced Photon Source injector. In addition, it supports a low-energy
undulator test line (LEUTL) and drives a free-electron laser (FEL). A
waveguide-switching and distribution system is now under construction. The
system configuration was revised to be consistent with the recent change to
electron-only operation. There are now six modulator-klystron subsystems, two
of which are being configured to act as hot spares for two S-band transmitters
each, so that no single failure will prevent injector operation. The two
subsystems are also used to support additional LEUTL capabilities and off-line
testing. Design considerations for the waveguide-switching subsystem, topology
selection, control and protection provisions, high-power test results, and
current status are describedComment: Linac 2000 paper No. THE07 3 pages with 3 figure
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Observations of enhanced OTR signals from a compressed electron beam
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) injector complex includes an option for photocathode (PC) gun beam injection into the 450-MeV S-band linac. At the 150-MeV point, a 4-dipole chicane was used to compress the micropulse bunch length from a few ps to sub 0.5 ps (FWHM). Noticeable enhancements of the optical transition radiation (OTR) signal sampled after the APS chicane were then observed as has been reported in LCLS injector commissioning. A FIR CTR detector and interferometer were used to monitor the bunch compression process and correlate the appearance of localized spikes of OTR signal (5 to 10 times brighter than adjacent areas) within the beam image footprint. We have done spectral dependency measurements at 375 MeV with a series of band pass filters centered in 50-nm increments from 400 to 700 nm and observed a broadband enhancement in these spikes. Discussions of the possible mechanisms will be presented
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The Advanced Photon Source main control room
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is a third-generation light source built in the 1990s. Like the machine itself, the Main Control Room (MCR) employs design concepts based on today`s requirements. The discussion will center on ideas used in the design of the MCR, the comfort of personnel using the design, and safety concerns integrated into the control room layout
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Automated operation of the APS linear using the procedure execution manager.
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Mitigation of COTR due to the Microbunching Instability in Compressed Electron Beams
We have demonstrated a technique to mitigate the intensity of the coherent OTR (COTR) relative to the OTR signals on the Advanced Photon Source chicane-compressed beams at 325 MeV. Since the reported spectral content of the COTR at LCLS after the first compression stage is similar, the concepts should also apply to LCLS. We utilized the stronger violet content at 400 nm of the OTR compared to the observed gain factors of the COTR in the green to NIR. We also demonstrated the use of an LSO:Ce scintillator that emits violet light to support lower-charge imaging
Characterization and mitigation of coherent-optical-transition-radiation signals from a compressed electron beam
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) injector complex includes an option for rf photocathode (PC) gun beam injection into the 450-MeV S-band linac. At the 150-MeV point, a four-dipole chicane was used to compress the micropulse bunch length from a few ps to sub-0.5Â ps (FWHM). Noticeable enhancements of the optical transition radiation (OTR) signal sampled after the APS chicane were then observed as has been reported in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) injector commissioning. A far-infrared (FIR) coherent transition radiation detector and interferometer were used to monitor the bunch compression process and correlate the appearance of localized spikes of OTR signal (5 to 10 times brighter than adjacent areas) within the beam-image footprint. We have performed spectral-dependency measurements at 375Â MeV with a series of bandpass filters centered in 50-nm increments from 400 to 700Â nm and with an imaging spectrometer and observed a broadband enhancement in these spikes. Mitigation concepts of the observed coherent OTR, which exhibits an intensity enhancement in the red part of the visible spectrum as compared to incoherent OTR, are described