CALABAZAS CREEK RESEARCH, INC. — Department of Energy SBIR Phase I: 07a
CALABAZAS CREEK RESEARCH, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Energy.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 07a
- Solicitation
- DE-FOA-0001770
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2018-04-09 → 2019-04-08
Description
Improved extraction efficiency is required for x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs), as current out- coupling efficiencies are approximately 4%- The current technique used in XFELs is based on SASE which is inherently noisy with large shot-to-shot variations in output power and spectrum- Calabazas Creek Research Inc- proposes to develop advanced XFEL oscillator designs with high out-coupling efficiencies based on the Regenerative Amplifier (RAFEL) concept- The RAFEL is a high-gain/low-Q oscillator where the optical field exponentiates to high powers in a single pass through the undulator- The program will use a powerful, mature, and parallelized existing code suite (MINERVA and OPC) to design advanced system components and simulate the performance-