V. Shvedunov | Searcharxiv

arXiv2003

Experimental investigation of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation from a "flat" grating

Using the pre-bunched electron beam of 5-MeV linear accelerator the coherent Smith-Purcell radiation (CSPR) from a flat periodic target (made of conductive layers separated by dielectric gaps) in millimeter wavelength region has been investigated. The angular distribution of this radiation was measured with a narrow-band detector and experimental data agree with our theoretical calculations for similar kind of targets. Such properties of Smith-Purcell radiation as strong dependence of radiation wavelength on the observation angle overlapping with coherent radiation effect may be used for a noninvasive bunch length measurement. The possibility of using the room temperature detectors for single bunch measurements is demonstrated.

physics.acc-ph↗

arXiv2001

Distributed Can-Bus Based Beam Diagnostic System for Pulse Race-Track Microtron

Very compact 70 MeV pulse race-track microtron is under construction now. To acquire outputs of beam-current transformers on every orbit and pulses of high voltage and RF field a distributed multi-channel beam diagnostic system was developed. Each acquisition controller consists of four fast differential amplifiers and one DSP-based micro-controller with on-chip ADC and CAN-bus controller. Each amplifier is coupled with beam-current transformer and has bandwidth of up to 150MHz and gain of up to 10. One of four channels is acquired during a measurement cycle. Another channel could be selected between two following pulses. All the controllers are connected via optically coupled CAN-bus with a host diskless PC running under Linux with the RTLinux extension. Dedicated software of the system consists of low level acquisition software for DSP, network software for controllers and host PC, application software for PC to present date for operator and control system. Standard CAN application layers were considered but refused because of the closed character of the whole system and centralised synchronisation of the whole system. Dedicated software of the system consists from low level acquisition software for DSP, network software for controllers and host PC, application software for PC to present date for operator and control system. Standard CAN application layers were considered but refused because of closed character of the whole system and centralised synchronisation of the whole system.

physics.acc-ph↗