Performance of the accelerator driver of Jefferson Laboratory's Free-Electron Laser
The driver for Jefferson Lab's infrared free-electron laser is a superconducting, recirculating accelerator that recovers about 75% of the electron-beam energy and converts it to radiofrequency power. It is designed to lase continuous-wave at 3--6 {mu}m at kW-level power. In achieving first light, the accelerator operated straight ahead to deliver 38 MeV, 1.1 mA cw current through the wiggler for lasing at wavelengths in the vicinity of 5 {mu}m. The waste beam was then sent directly to a dump, bypassing the recirculation loop. Stable operation at power levels up to 311 W cw have thus far been achieved in this mode. The accelerator has recently recirculated up to 0.6 mA cw current with energy recovery. In this mode it has lased pulsed and cw at low-power. It remains to clean up the transport for high-power cw lasing.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- OSTI ID:
- 754516
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/40150-1356; JLAB-ACC-98-10
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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