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FLUTE, a new linac-based test facility and THz source is currently being built at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in collaboration with DESY and PSI. It consists of an RF photo gun and a traveling wave linac accelerating electrons to beam energies of ~41 MeV in the charge range from a few pC up to 3 nC. The electron bunch will then be compressed in a magnetic chicane in the range of 1 - 300 fs, depending on the charge, in order to generate coherent THz radiation with high peak power. An overview of the simulation and hardware status is given in this contribution., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

The ANKA electron storage ring of the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany) is regularly operated in low-alpha mode to produce short bunches for the generation of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR). This paper evaluates systematic bunch length measurements taken in low-alpha operation of the ANKA storage ring. Above the bursting threshold not only the emission of CSR occurs in bursts, but also a continuous fluctuation of the bunch's length is observed. The measurements were carried out using concurrent multi turn (using a streak camera) as well as single shot (using electro-optical spectral decoding) methods. Furthermore, we compare information obtained on the fluctuation to simulations., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

Since a few years CSR-Radiation created in low alpha mode is provided by the ANKA light source of the KIT*. Depending on the bunch current, the radiation is emitted in bursts of high intensity. These bursts display a time evolution which can be observed only on long time scales with respect to the revolution period. The intensity of the emitted radiation during a burst is significantly increased w.r.t. steady state emission. Some users of the THz radiation don’t require particularly constant emission characteristics and could profit from the higher intensity. A better understanding of the long term behaviour of those bursts could help to improve the conditions for those users. We have investigated THz radiation in multiturn mode with a hot electron bolometer. Its time response of 165ps allowed us to resolve the signals of individual bunches. Using a 6GHz LeCroy oscilloscope for data acquisition, we were able to save up to 1.6ms long signal sequences at a sampling rate of 20GS/s. This amount of data corresponds to over 4000 bunch revolutions and allows turn-by-turn signal tracking of desired bunches. In single bunch mode we are able to take segmented data to avoid a huge overhead., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) proposes to build a new light source called TBONE (THz Beam Optics for New Experiments), which aims at a spectral range from 0.1 to 150 THz with a peak power of several MW and a pulse length of only 5 fs. In order to achieve this, a beam transport system with minimal losses and a high bunch compression is required. In this paper we present first beam dynamic simulations of the superconducting linac as well as the bunch compressor and give a short status report of the TBONE project., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

In synchrotron radiation sources coherent radiation is emitted when the bunch length is comparable to or shorter than the wavelength of the emitted radiation. At the ANKA storage ring this radiation is observed as so-called edge radiation (emitted in the fringe field of a bending magnet). This radiation exhibits a radial polarisation pattern. The observed pattern, however, is influenced by the radiation transport in the beam line. A detector system based on a superconducting NbN ultra-fast bolometer with an intrinsic response time of about 100 ps as well as conventional Si bolometers were used to study the beam polarisaion. This paper reports the observations made during measurements., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

A dedicated optics with a low momentum compaction factor is used at the ANKA storage ring to reduce the bunch length to generate coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR). A double sweep streak camera is employed to determine the bunch length and shape for different optics and as a function of the beam current. Measurements of the longitudinal bunch profile have been performed for many different momentum compaction factors and various bunch currents. This paper describes the set up of the streak camera experiments and compares the measured bunch lengths to theoretical expectations., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

The ANKA storage ring can generate brilliant coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in the THz range due to a dedi- cated low-αc -optics with reduced bunch lengths. At higher electron currents the radiation is not stable, but occurs in powerful bursts caused by micro-bunching instabilities. This intense THz radiation is very attractive for users. However, the reproducibility of the experimental conditions is very low due to those power fluctuations. Systematic studies of bursting CSR in multi-bunch operation were performed with fast THz detectors at ANKA using a dedicated, ultra-fast DAQ-FPGA board. The technique and preliminary results of these studies are presented in this paper., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany