PBPL Publications: 2008-00019 PUBLICATION SPUR: A NEW CODE FOR THE CALCULATION OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FROM VERY LONG UNDULATOR SYSTEMS

The accurate calculation of synchrotron radiation from an undulator is a common problem and numerous codes have been developed that describe the radiation from analytic and measured undulator fields. However, for very long undulator systems there is not a suitable code that can handle the amount of data in a convenient manner and which runs in a practically realisable time limit. The development of a new code, SPontaneous Undulator Radiation (SPUR) [1], is presented which computes the spontaneous radiation from electron beams passing through a system of undulators. The code supports parallel architecture, and uses the HDF5 [2] technology to efficiently handle the multi-dimensional data. The latest developments and benchmarking are presented. SPUR: A NEW CODE FOR THE CALCULATION OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FROM VERY LONG UNDULATOR SYSTEMS N.C Ryder, S. Reiche, D.J. Scott 1 STFC ASTeC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK 2 Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus, Warrington, UK 3 Department of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 4 UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Abstract The accurate calculation of synchrotron radiation from an undulator is a common problem and numerous codes have been developed that describe the radiation from analytic and measured undulator fields. However, for very long undulator systems there is not a suitable code that can handle the amount of data in a convenient manner and which runs in a practically realisable time limit. The development of a new code, SPontaneous Undulator Radiation (SPUR) [1], is presented which computes the spontaneous radiation from electron beams passing through a system of undulators. The code supports parallel architecture, and uses the HDF5 [2] technology to efficiently handle the multi-dimensional data. The latest developments and benchmarking are presented.The accurate calculation of synchrotron radiation from an undulator is a common problem and numerous codes have been developed that describe the radiation from analytic and measured undulator fields. However, for very long undulator systems there is not a suitable code that can handle the amount of data in a convenient manner and which runs in a practically realisable time limit. The development of a new code, SPontaneous Undulator Radiation (SPUR) [1], is presented which computes the spontaneous radiation from electron beams passing through a system of undulators. The code supports parallel architecture, and uses the HDF5 [2] technology to efficiently handle the multi-dimensional data. The latest developments and benchmarking are presented.