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Title: Nanosecond rf-Power Switch for Gyrotron-Driven Millimeter-Wave Accelerators

Journal Article · · Physical Review Applied
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  1. RadiaBeam Technologies LLC, Santa Monica, CA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); RadiaBeam Technologies, Santa Monica, CA (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Logicware Inc, New York, NY (United States)
  5. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
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The development of alternative mm-wave high-gradient, >200 MV/m, accelerating structures offers a promising path to reduce the cost and footprint of future TeV-scale linear colliders, as well as linacs for industrial, medical, and security applications. The major factor limiting accelerating gradient is vacuum rf breakdown. The probability of such breakdowns increases with pulse length. For reliable operation, millimeter-wave structures require nanoseconds-long pulses at the megawatt level. This power is available from gyrotrons, which have a minimum pulse length on the order of microseconds. To create shorter pulses and to reliably detect rf breakdowns, we developed the following devices: a laser-based rf switch capable of selecting 10 ns long pulses out of the microseconds long gyrotron pulses, thus enabling the use of the gyrotrons as power sources for mm-wave high-gradient linacs, and a shot-to-shot sub-THz spectrometer with high-frequency resolution, capable of detecting pulse shortening due to rf breakdowns. We will describe the principle of operation of these devices and their achieved parameters. Here, we also report on the experimental demonstration of these devices with the high-power gyrotron at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the experiments, we demonstrate nanosecond rf power modulation, shot-to-shot measurements of the pulse spectra, and detection of rf breakdowns.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC, Santa Monica, CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; SC0015566; SC0013684; FC02-93ER54186
OSTI ID:
1526703
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1546196; OSTI ID: 1597850
Journal Information:
Physical Review Applied, Vol. 11, Issue 3; ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 22 works
Citation information provided by
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nanosecond switch
shot-to-shot THz spectrometer
mm-wavelength structures
W-band
THz accelerators
high-gradient accelerating structure
vacuum RF breakdown