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There is an urgent need to develop a new high-energy 2m ultrafast fiber laser system in order to achieve the optimized efficiency of the ESASE process, which is beneficial in areas ranging from atomic and molecular sciences to chemical, materials, and biological studies. To reach the mid-IR wavelengths for ESASE application, the traditional way is to shift the wavelengths of these commercially ava ...

Short electron beam pulses (subpicosecond) are central to many of the next generation light source initiatives, like X-Ray Free Electron Lasers. These FELs are based on linear accelerators which produce at the output of the last compressor an electron beam with a residual chirp to compensate for wakefield effects through the rest of the accelerating stage. It is required that this small but signif ...

The total length and hence cost of the ILC is in part due to limitations of its superconducting standing wave accelerating cavities. We have invented a new technology that can reduce the total length of the ILC by 2/3. We have developed a design for a traveling wave superconducting accelerating structure that supports a larger gradient compared to SW structures, and also allows less wasted space ...

The lattice period in the low energy section of a proton accelerator is required by the physics to be as short as possible; however, the required number of beamline components per period is high. By gradually increasing the diameter of the low energy accelerating cavities (giving them a conical shape) and staggering the rotation of the cavities a considerable reduction in the space required is obt ...

One of the most attractive features of dielectric based accelerators are their potential capability of operating at ultra-high gradients, which is highly desirable for future high energy collider designs, as well as for industrial and medical accelerator applications. This prediction of ultra-high gradients is widely accepted but has never been verified because of experimental difficulties. We pro ...

These requirements demand that the undulators have short periods (around 1.5 cm) and high peak magnetic fields (around 1.6 tesla). For the windings of such undulators the solicitation also requests the use of new superconducting materials such as improved Nb3Sn superconductors and high temperature superconductor such as YBCO tape, and the development of appropriate coil manufacturing techniques. H ...

Nuclear physics research has a need for new and advanced radiation detector structures with improved characteristics to provide higher speed, position sensitive capability for detecting, tracking, imaging and analyzing charged particles in nuclear accelerators. This proposal addresses this need via development of an ultra-thin, ultra-low-mass gaseous detector based on plasma display panel TV te ...

Particle detectors for nuclear physics and high energy physics experiments require high performance, high sensitivity digitizers for read-out electronics. Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used in such applications but limit experimental results because of a restrictive combination of speed, resolution, power, and radiation-hardness. Many instruments need very high channel counts, a costly r ...

A critical aspect in Particle Accelerator Instrumentation is the precise, real-time control of the high- energy particle beams used to create the conditions required for sub-atomic physics experiments. The accelerator instrumentation systems require digital control and feedback with extremely high linearity and dynamic range to achieve system performance targets. In addition, with the added requir ...