This paper continues our description of a new compact CW linac program started by Schonberg Research Corporation (SRC) under terms of a development contract. This work is now continued by High Energy Systems (HES) Division of AS&E. HES has been formed based on the acquisition of SRC by AS&E. Since we published the design and the first experimental data on the 1 MeV CW linac [1], a complete test...

A switching mode power supply (SMPS) is a hopeful candidate for the 1MW CW klystron power supply of KOMAC (KOrea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex). The merits of the SMPS are low stored energy, small size, high rating efficiency and possible cost saving whereas the demerits are EMI problem and system complexities. The proposed power is 2MW and it is considered that the modules, each of which h...

Superconducting cavities exhibit a high susceptibility to mechanical perturbations due to the narrow bandwidth of the cavities. Significant phase and amplitude errors can be induced by the frequency variations driven by microphonics and Lorentz force detuning especially in the case of pulsed operation where mechanical resonances of the cavity can be excited. While the relativistic electron and ...

Klystrons capable of 75 MW output power at 11.4 GHz have been under development at SLAC for the last decade. The work has been part of the program to realize all the components necessary for the construction of the Next Linear Collider (NLC). The effort has produced a family of solenoid-focused 50 MW klystrons, which are currently powering a 0.5 GeV test accelerator at SLAC and several test sta...

The low-level RF system for PEP-II is a modular design housed in a VXI environment and supported by EPICS. All signal processing and control is done at baseband using in-phase and quadrature (IQ) techniques. Remotely configurable RF feedback loops are used to control coupled-bunch instabilities driven by the accelerating mode of the RF cavities. A programmable DSP based feedback loop is impleme...

A high-power low-loss mode transducer design has been proposed to adapt the output of the X-Band klystron, WR.90 rectangular waveguide, to the input of the pulse compression system, SLED II, which utilizes overmoded circular waveguides operating in the low-loss TEol mode. This device is much more compact than the conventional Marie’ type mode converters. The device splits the incoming klystron ...

A new klystron based X-band rf power source operating at 11.994 GHz has been installed and started to be commissioned at CERN in collaboration with CEA Saclay and SLAC for CLIC accelerating structure tests. The system comprises a solid state high voltage modulator, an XL5 klystron developed by SLAC, a cavity based SLED type pulse compressor, the necessary low level rf system including rf diagno...

The 6 GeV CEBAF accelerator at Jefferson Lab is arranged in a five-pass racetrack configuration, with two superconducting radio frequency (SRF) linacs joined by independent magnet transport arcs. It is planned to increase the accelerator energy to eventually support 12 GeV operations. To achieve this, a new 7-cell superconducting cavity is being built to operate at an average accelerating gradi...