Published 1994 | Version v1
Report

The Brookhaven Accelerator Test Facility Nd:YAG laser

  • 1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

Description

A Nd:YAG photocathode laser system is currently being assembled to service the BNL Accelerator Test Facility. The system utilizes a diode-pumped, actively mode-locked Nd:YAG oscillator as the seed for two lamp pumped amplifier stages and subsequent frequency quadruplying. This laser will simultaneously illuminate the metal cathode of a 1 1/2 cell S-band RF gun with a quantum efficiency of 1x10-4 at 266 nm, and provide 10 mJ of 1 μm light to control an optical semiconductor switch of the facility's CO2 laser for laser particle acceleration experiments. Alternatively, pulse trains of up to 250 micropulses can be generated for FEL oscillator experiments. Up to 200 μJ at 266 nm in a single pulse are required for sufficient charge to be injected into the facility's 50 MeV linac and delivered to the various beamline experiments

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Lasers for RF guns: Proceedings
Imprint Pagination
153 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 73-88.
Report number
BNL--52435

Conference

Title
Lasers for RF guns.
Dates
14-15 May 1994.
Place
Anaheim, CA (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
26066828
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BNL; CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN; ELECTRON SOURCES; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTOCATHODES; TEST FACILITIES
Descriptors DEC
AMPLIFIERS; CATHODES; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT; LASERS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICLE SOURCES; RADIATION SOURCES; SOLID STATE LASERS; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-9405276--.