New energy recovery linac source of synchrotron X-rays

Simulations of inertial confinement fusion driven by a novel synchrotron-radiation-based x-ray igniter

“…The driver for our system, an x-ray source with the required capability of depositing hundreds of Joules into a spherical volume of ~10-20 m diameter, in an interval of 3-10 ps, does not at present exist, but the technologies for constructing it do [1,2, [10][11][12][13][14]. These technologies, based on 1) Energy Recovery Linacs with photocathode RF guns, 2) ultra-long wigglers or undulators (room temperature or superconducting (SC)) and 3) X-ray optics, have within the past decade been used as the basis for X-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL) project designs at both SLAC and DESY, and indeed the latter project features an experimental facility of the same order of scale that we believe the proposed ICF igniter would constitute.…”

Present and future optics challenges at CHESS and for proposed energy recovery linac source of synchrotron radiation

“…The new energy recovery linac (ERL) synchrotron radiation source proposed at Cornell is based on closed-loop energy recovery with superconducting linear accelerators and small-gap short-period undulators [7][8][9][10]. It offers significant advantages over storage ring sources, both in terms of the possible x-ray beams and, once the technology is developed, cost-effectiveness.…”

“…In the mean time, a completely new type of synchrotron radiation source is being proposed at CHESS in collaboration with Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University and with physicists at Jefferson National Laboratory [7][8][9][10]. The new source is an energy-recovery linear accelerator (ERL) driven, undulator-based synchrotron source that has the potential to provide many advantages as compared to the present storage-ring based facilities.…”

Diffractive sub-picosecond manipulation of X-rays

“…The X-rays provide complementary information on the spatial structure and on elemental site-specific electronic structure. Subpicosecond X-rays of considerable brightness are becoming available with the new accelerator-driven X-ray sources (Service, 2002), such as SPPS (Krejcik, 2001), energy-recovering linear accelerators (ERLs) (Bilderback et al, 2001) and X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). It is therefore necessary to consider ways of manipulating X-rays coherently on these time scales and to measure their correlation with lasers.…”