Status of the tandem FEL project development in Israel

I. Ben-Zvi, J. Sokolowski, D. Chomski, E. Jerby, S. Ruschin, A. Friedman, A. Gover, A. Rosenberg, J. Shiloh

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Abstract

The authors report the status of a collaborative research project being developed, which is aimed at the construction of an IR free-electron laser (FEL) based on the EN tandem electrostatic accelerator of the Weizmann Institute of Science. A preliminary feasibility demonstration project yielded encouraging progress in three areas: (1) Electron gun and accelerator conversion: A 50-kV 1-A electron gun injector was designed, built, tested, and assembled on the 6-MeV tandem accelerator. (2) Electron-beam transport: The first installation of the electron optical beam recovery system yielded transport efficiency of 80%. (3) Wiggler development: A conventional 4.4-cm-period SmCo planar wiggler was acquired and evaluated using a recently constructed floating-wire magnetic field measurement setup. In addition, a microwiggler development program was launched.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-0PTICS
Editors Anon
Pages386
Number of pages1
StatePublished - 1989
Externally publishedYes
EventSummaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Baltimore, MD, USA
Duration: 24 Apr 198928 Apr 1989

Publication series

NameCONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-0PTICS

Conference

ConferenceSummaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
CityBaltimore, MD, USA
Period24/04/8928/04/89

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