Light Sources

The Light Sources Sector is responsible for the insertion devices, beamline front-ends and vacuum systems, as well as for the study and development new sources such as free-electron lasers (FELs).

In more detail, this involves carrying out, in collaboration with technical groups of the Accelerator Sector, the following:

• Insertion device design, assembly, magnetic testing, installation, commissioning, maintenance
  
• Front-end design, assembly, testing, commissioning, maintenance
  
• New vacuum chamber design, preparation and testing, installation and commissioning
  
• Monitoring of vacuum performance of the accelerators and transfer lines, and maintenance of vacuum equipment installed in the accelerators
  
• Operation of the vacuum processing laboratory, and provision of a general vacuum service
  
• Free-electron laser (FEL) development, including the existing storage ring FEL on ELETTRA (EUFELE), as well as studies of new FEL sources, such as the VUV to Soft X-ray FEL based on the ELETTRA linear accelerator (VXFEL)
  

The main current development projects of the light sources sector are as follows:

• Superconducting wiggler for the XRD-II beamline
  
• Figure-8 undulator for the IUVS beamline
  
• Prototype short insertion device
  
• NEG coated aluminium ID vacuum chambers
  
• European Free-Electron Laser project at ELETTRA (EUFELE)
  
• VUV to Soft X-ray FEL based on the ELETTRA Linac (VXFEL)
  

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2002

[1] G. De Ninno, C. Bruni, D. Nutarelli, D. Garzella, C. Thomas, M.E. Couprie, "Steady state of a fully-detuned storage-ring Free Electron Laser", December 2002, ST/SL-02/02
docs/st_sl_02_02.pdf (245.7 Kb)

[2] G. De Ninno, D. Fanelli, C. Bruni, M.E. Couprie, "Chaotic Dynamics of a Storage-Ring Free Electron Laser", ST/SL-02/01
docs/st_sl_02_01.pdf (425.4 Kb)

2001

[3] L. Tosi and R.P. Walker, "Study of the Feasibility of Installing Short Insertion Devices in the Dispersive Arcs of ELETTRA", ST/SL-01/01 (April 2001).

[4] M. Marsi et al., "Completion of the First Phase of Development of the European UV/VUV Free-Electron Laser at ELETTRA", Synchrotron Radiation News Vol. 14, No. 4, July/August 2001, p. 19.

[5] Collection of Reports presented at the Particle Accelerator Conference, Chicago, June, 2001, ST/SL-01/02 (Aug. 2001).

[6] Collection of Reports presented at the Shanghai Symposium on Intermediate Energy Light Sources, Shanghai, September 2001, ST/SL-01/03 (Sep. 2001).

[7] R.P. Walker et al., "The European UV/VUV storage ring FEL at ELETTRA: first operation and future plans", Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 467-468 (2001) 34.