A high-average-power FEL for industrial applications

Author

Dylla, H.F. ; Benson, S. ; Bisognano, J. ; Bohn, C.L. ; Cardman, L. ; Engwall, D. ; Fugitt, J. ; Jordan, K. ; Kehne, D. ; Li, Z. ; Liu, H. ; Merminga, L. ; Neil, G.R. ; Neuffer, D. ; Shinn, M. ; Sinclair, C. ; Wiseman, M. ; Brillson, L.J. ; Henkel, D.P. ;

Author_Institution

CEBAF, Newport News, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

Firstpage

102

Abstract

CEBAF has developed a comprehensive conceptual design of an industrial user facility based on a kilowatt UV (150-1000 nm) and IR (2-25 micron) FEL driven by a recirculating, energy-recovering 200 MeV superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) accelerator. FEL users-CEBAF´s partners in the Laser Processing Consortium, including AT&T, DuPont, IBM, Northrop-Grumman, 3M, and Xerox-plan to develop applications such as polymer surface processing, metals and ceramics micromachining, and metal surface processing, with the overall effort leading to later scale-up to industrial systems at 50-100 kW. Representative applications are described. The proposed high-average-power FEL overcomes limitations of conventional laser sources in available power, cost-effectiveness, tunability and pulse structure

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; ceramics; electron accelerators; free electron lasers; metals; micromachining; polymers; surface treatment; 150 to 1000 nm; 2 to 25 mum; 200 MeV; 50 to 100 kW; CEBAF; IR FEL; UV FEL; ceramics micromachining; conceptual design; energy-recovering radiofrequency accelerator; free electron laser; high-average-power FEL; industrial applications; industrial user facility; metal surface processing; metals micromachining; polymer surface processing; pulse structure; recirculating superconducting RF accelerator; tunability; Ceramics industry; Metals industry; Micromachining; Optical pulses; Plastics industry; Polymers; Power lasers; Radio frequency; Superconducting photodetectors; Surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.504578

Filename

504578