Status of the Development of Superconducting Undulators at the Advanced Photon Source
Status of the Development of Superconducting Undulators at the Advanced Photon Source
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先进光子源超导波荡器的发展现状
DOI:
10.1080/08940886.2018.1460172
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
E. Gluskin
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作者:
Y. Ivanyushenkov;J. Fuerst;Q. Hasse;M. Kasa;I. Kesgin;Y. Shiroyanagi;E. Gluskin
Superconducting undulators (SCUs) are electromagnetic undulators that employ superconducting coils for generating magnetic field. Magnetic simulations suggest that superconducting undulator technology outperforms other undulator technologies in terms of undulator peak field for a given magnetic gap and period length [1, 2]. The higher undulator field leads to generation of higher photon fluxes, especially at higher photon energies. This predicted advantage of SCU technology was demonstrated at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) by operational performance of the first superconducting undulator, SCU0. While only having a magnetic length of 0.3 m, this 16-mm-period device generates a higher photon flux than a 2.4-m-long, 33-mm-period permanent magnet hybrid undulator at the photon energies above 80 keV [3]. The technology of superconducting undulators has been developed and is currently in use at the APS [4, 5]. The successful experience of building and operating the SCU0 paved the way for two 1.1-m-long, 18-mm-period devices, SCU18-1 [6] and SCU18-2. The first of those undulators has been in operation since May 2015, while the second one replaced SCU0 in September 2016, after completion of its continuous operation for over 3.5 years. The possibility of building planar SCUs with a high quality field has been demonstrated at the APS. The measured phase errors of SCU18-2 at the design operational current are only 2 degrees rms, for example. An FEL SCU prototype—a 1.5-mlong, 21-mm-period undulator—was also built and tested as part of an LCLS SCU R&D program aimed at demonstration of the availability of SCU technology for free electron lasers [7]. This undulator successfully achieved all LCLS-II undulator requirements, including a phase error of 5 degrees rms.The superconducting undulator technology also allows the fabrication of circular polarizing devices. Recently, a new helical SCU (HSCU) has been built at the APS. This device was installed on the APS storage ring at the end of 2017. In addition, the concept of a novel Superconducting Arbitrarily Polarizing Emitter, or SCAPE, has been suggested and is now under development [8]. So far, the APS undulators are wound with NbTi low-temperature (LTS) superconducting wire. This superconductor does not require heat treatment, unlike another conductor in the LTS family, Nb3Sn, and therefore allows for a relatively easy fabrication technology. At the same time, a group of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) might lead to cryogen-free high-field undulators. A recent three-year develop-