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Spatial beam apodization is a critical part of the design of high-energy solid-state laser systems. Standard methods of making apodizers include photographic and metal-vapor-deposition techniques. Apodizers fabricated with these methods are subject to damage and deterioration from high-intensity laser pulses. An alternative approach is to use a serrated-edge aperture in conjunction with the spatial filter. This system can produce beams with smooth edge profiles. We present the theory of operation of the serrated aperture along with some useful design rules and describe the successful application of a serrated-aperture apodizer in the Beamlet laser system.

A beamline has been constructed at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) whose radiation source is a multipole permanent magnet '\.\iggler installed in a straight section of the SPEAR 3-3.5 GeV electron storage ring. The wiggler is a hybrid design that utilizes Nd-Fe alloy magnet material combined with Vanadium Permendur poles. It is approximately 2 m long and has 15 full wiggler periods. Its field is regulated by varying its gap height. It has a peak operating field, limited by the electron beam vacuum chamber vertical aperture, of 1.4 T. The beamline consists ofvacuum, safety, and optical components capable oftransporting photons to one hard xray (3-30 keV) end station, with provisions for implementing up to two additional branch lines. The existing hard x~ray branch can be focused by a Pt-coated toroidal mirror with a cutoff energy of approximately 22 keV. The experimental end station is serviced by a Hower-Brown type double crystal monochromator. The wiggler and beamline construction was completed in the fall of 1987 and was operated for a brief period for characterization and experimental use. We present design details and results of the initial characterization studies.

The High Current Experiment (HCX) is being built to explore heavy-ion beam transport at a scale appropriate to the low-energy end of a driver for fusion energy production. The primary mission of this experiment is to investigate aperture fill factors acceptable for the transport of space-charge dominated heavy-ion beams at high space-charge intensity (line-charge density ~ 0.2 µC/m) over long pulse durations (3-10 µsec). A single beam transport channel will be used to evaluate scientific and technological issues resulting from the transport of an intense beam subject to applied field nonlinearities, envelope mismatch, misalignment-induced centroid excursions, imperfect vacuum, halo, background gas and electron effects resulting from lost beam ions. Emphasis will be on the influence of these effects on beam control and limiting degradations in beam quality (emittance growth). Electrostatic (Phase I) and magnetic (Phase II) quadrupole focusing lattices have been designed and future phases of the experiment may involve acceleration and/or pulse compression. The Phase I lattice is presently under construction[1] and simulations to better predict machine performance are being carried out [2]. Here we overview: the scientific objectives of the overall project, processes that will be explored, and transport lattices developed.

Ion source and injector development is one of the major parts of the HIF program in the USA. Our challenge is to design a cost effective driver-scale injector and to build a multiple beam module within the next couple of years. In this paper, several currentvoltage scaling laws are summarized for guiding the injector design. Following the traditional way of building injectors for HIF induction linac, we have produced a preliminary design for a multiple beam driver-scale injector. We also developed an alternate option for a high current density injector that is much smaller in size. One of the changes following this new option is the possibility of using other kinds of ion sources than the surface ionization sources. So far, we are still looking for an ideal ion source candidate that can readily meet all the essential requirements.