Slawomir Kwiatkowski

Generation of Picosecond X-Ray Pulses in the ALS Using RF Orbit Deflection

A scheme is proposed for producing ps length pulses of x-ray radiation from the Advanced Light Source (ALS) using two RF deflecting cavities. The cavities create vertical displacements of electrons correlated with their longitudinal position in the bunch. The two cavities separated by 180 degrees of vertical phase advance. This allows the vertical kick from one cavity to be compensated by the vertical kick of the other. The location of the cavities corresponds to the end of one straight section and the beginning of the following straight section. Halfway between the cavities a bending magnet source is located. The radiation from the bend can be compressed to ∼ 1 ps in duration.

Status of the top-off upgrade of the ALS

The advanced light source is currently being upgraded for top-off operation. This major facility upgrade will provide an improvement in brightness from soft X-ray undulators of about one order of magnitude and keep the ALS competitive with the newest intermediate energy light sources. Major components of the upgrade include making the booster synchrotron capable of full energy operation, radiation safety studies, improvements to interlocks and collimation systems, diagnostics upgrades as well as emittance improvements in the main storage ring. Most hardware necessary as part of the upgrade has been installed and commissioned. The radiation safety studies are making good progress and have passed a first outside peer review successfully.

The VHF-Gun, the LBNL High-Brightness Electron Photo-Injector for MHz-Class Repetition-Rate Applications

Science needs are pushing the development of MHz-class repetition-rate linac-based facilities generating high-brightness electron beams. The successful lower repetition-rate RF gun schemes cannot be scaled up to MHz rates. At LBNL, we developed the VHF-Gun, a room-temperature RF gun designed for CW operation and high-brightness beam performance.

HOM dampers for ALS storage ring rf cavities

The main source of narrowband impedance in the Advanced Light Source (ALS) is higher order modes (HOMs) of the two main RF and three third harmonic cavities. These HOMs drive longitudinal and transverse coupled bunch instabilities, which are controlled using active beam feedback systems. The dominant longitudinal HOMs in both systems are TM/sub 011/-like modes with the R/Q factor an order of magnitude higher than all other longitudinal modes. To reduce the growth rates within the range of the longitudinal feedback system (LFB), these modes were tuned away from beam resonances by means of cooling water temperature control (main rf system), and the combination of two tuners (third harmonic system). To improve the reliability of the longitudinal dampening system, we have built and installed E-type HOM dampers for the fundamental and harmonic cavities. We present the design, commissioning and performance of the HOM dampers in this paper.