Two high-current injectors were considered for ICS use, together with a short X-band linac. The first injector is based on the CompactLight technology, while the second is based on a design from CERN. The pulse energy of a 1 kW laser was increased by using a Fabry-Pérot cavity. To perform these studies, an ICS simulation module was developed within the particle tracking code RF-Track. A...
The aim of kW-flexiburst is to develop a high-power Ultra-short Pulse (USP) laser generating bursts that can be arbitrarily adjusted in terms of burst repetition rate, intra-burst repetition rate, number of pulses per burst, relative intensities in the burst while maintaining a 1 kW average power. This will be enabled by a radically new concept of seed oscillator, which offers the opportunity...