Status of the SPARC Project

Author

Alesini, D. ; Bertolucci, S. ; Bellaveglia, M. ; Biagini, M.E. ; Boni, R. ; Boscolo, M. ; Castellano, M. ; Clozza, A. ; Pirro, G. Di ; Drago, A. ; Esposito, A. ; Ferrario, M. ; Ficcadenti, L. ; Filippetto, D. ; Fusco, V. ; Gallo, A. ; Gatti, G. ; Ghigo, A

Author_Institution

INFN-LNF, Frascati, Italy

fYear

2005

fDate

16-20 May 2005

Firstpage

1327

Lastpage

1329

Abstract

The SPARC project has entered its installation phase at the Frascati National Laboratories of INFN: its main goal, the promotion of an R&D activity oriented to the development of a high brightness photoinjector to drive SASE-FEL experiments, is being vigorously pursued by a collaboration among ENEA-INFN-CNR-Universita` di Roma Tor Vergata-INFM-ST. In this paper we will report on the installation and test of some major components, like Ti: Sa laser system, RF gun and RF power system. Advancements in the control and beam diagnostics systems will also be reported, in particular on the emittance-meter device for beam emittance measurements in the drift space downstream the RF gun. Recent results on laser pulse shaping show the feasibility of producing 10 ps flat-top laser pulses in the UV with rise time below 1 ps. First FEL experiments have been proposed, using SASE, seeding and non-linear resonant harmonics.

Keywords

Brightness; Collaboration; Control systems; Laboratories; Laser beams; Power lasers; Power system measurements; Pulse power systems; Radio frequency; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8859-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2005.1590750

Filename

1590750