Improvement in the laser system for the A0 TTF photoinjector

Yang, Xi

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

关键词: Compression;    Brightness;    43 Particle Accelerators;    Oscillators;    Electron Beams;   

DOI  :  10.2172/918711
RP-ID  :  FERMILAB-FN-0805-AD
RP-ID  :  AC02-07CH11359
RP-ID  :  918711

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The production of high charge and high brightness electron beams places increasingly challenging demands on the drive laser used at the A0 photoinjector in the Fermilab. The IR and UV laser pulse lengths need to be optimized for such purpose. We have experimentally investigated two different ways to change the UV laser pulse length on the cathode; either by changing the bandwidth of the oscillator or by changing the distance between two compression gratings, the UV laser pulse length can be varied in the range of 3ps to 30ps. Also the strong correlation between the UV laser energy and the IR laser pulse length has been studied, and the result is applied to achieve the UV laser energy of 18 {micro}J/pulse.