Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The Jefferson Lab 1 KW IR FEL

Conference ·
OSTI ID:760432
The Jefferson Lab (JLab) IR Demo Free Electron Laser (FEL) has completed commissioning and is initiating user service. The FEL - a high repetition rate, low extraction efficiency wiggler-driven optical cavity resonator - produces over 1 kW of tuneable light on intervals in a 3-6 lim wavelength range. It is driven by a 35-48 MeV, 5 mA superconducting RF (SRF) based energy-recovering continuous wave (CW) electron linac. The driver accelerator meets requirements imposed by low energy, high current, and a demand for stringent beam control at the wiggler and during energy recovery. These constraints are driven by the need for six-dimensional phase space management, the existence of deleterious collective phenomena (space charge, wake-fields, beam break-up, and coherent synchrotron radiation), and interactions between the FEL and the accelerator RF. The authors detail the system design, relate commissioning highlights, and discuss present performance.
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:
760432
Report Number(s):
JLAB-ACP-00-02; DOE/ER/40150-1736
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Driver Accelerator Design for the 10 KW upgrade of the Jefferson Lab IR FEL
Conference · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2000 · OSTI ID:760430

First results on energy recovery in the Jefferson Lab IR FEL
Conference · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999 · OSTI ID:754381

Design of the SRF Driver ERL for the Jefferson Lab UV FEL
Conference · Mon Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 2011 · OSTI ID:1020757