Vitaliy Goryashko

A megawatt class compact power combiner for solid-state amplifiers

We propose a compact multiport two-stage combiner capable of handling peak power up to 10 MW at the UHF band and suitable for particle accelerator applications. The detailed electromagnetic and thermal simulations of the combiner operating at the ESS specifications of 400 kW at 352 MHz are presented. At the first stage, the power is combined to a 100 kW level by means of a non-resonant 12-way radial combiner, which is assumed to be fed by 8 kW solid-state amplifiers. At the second stage, a waveguide combiner with T-shape couplers separated by a half-wavelength of the fundamental waveguide mode is used in order to bring the combined power to the required level. The combiner is broadband and has a relative power non-uniformity less than 5% over a 10 MHz frequency band around the central frequency. The size of the proposed combiner is several times smaller than the existing ones. We also present low-power measurement results of a prototype of the radial combiner.

Self-amplified coherent spontaneous emission in a free electron laser with ''quiet'' bunches

For a planar free electron laser (FEL) configuration we study self-amplified coherent spontaneous emission driven by a gradient of the bunch current in the presence of different levels of noise in bunches. The longitudinal granularity of the electron bunch density originating from shot noise is maintained throughout the analysis. For the FEL model with the SwissFEL injector bunch parameters, we calculate the probability density distribution of the maximum power of the radiation pulses for different levels of shot noise. It turns out that the temporal coherence quickly increases as the noise level reduces. We also show that the FEL based on coherent spontaneous emission produces almost Fourier transform limited pulses. The analysis indicates that the time-bandwidth product is mainly determined by the bunch length and the interaction distance in an undulator. Calculations of the FEL characteristics for different rise times of the front of the current pulse are performed, and it is found that a reduced level of the power fluctuations is preserved for the bunch current pulse with a front duration up to several FEL wavelengths. We also propose a novel scheme that permits the formation of electron bunches with a reduced level of noise and a high gradient of the current at the bunch tail to enhance coherent spontaneous emission. The presented scheme uses effects of noise reduction and controlled microbunching instability and consists of a laser heater, a bunch compressor, and a shot noise suppression section. We show that shot noise reduction by 2 orders of magnitude in electron bunches produced by the SwissFEL injector can be achieved in a compact noise suppression section. The noise factor and microbunching gain of the overall proposed scheme with and without laser heater are estimated.

A Method for High-Precision Characterization of the

We propose a novel method for high-precision determination of a quality factor Q0 of a superconducting radio-frequency cavity as a function of the strength of the field excited in the cavity, the so-called Q-slope. Usually, the cavity parameters are measured only at resonance for different cavity field strengths, but such a single data point measurement for a given field strength results in a 10%-15% uncertainty in Q0 . In contrast, we propose a method that improves the accuracy of Q0 determination by an order of magnitude. We vary the phase of an excited stabilized field in the cavity and measure the reflection coefficient of the cavity as a function of the phase. The procedure is repeated for different strengths of the excited field. Given the fact that the complex reflection coefficient of a cavity describes a perfect circle in polar coordinates as a function of the field phase for a constant field strength, we find the coupling coefficient much more accurately by fitting the overdetermined set of measured data to the circle for each value of the cavity field. From the time-decay measurement, which allows least-squares minimization, we accurately find the total (loaded) quality factor and deduce Q0 with an uncertainty of around 1%.