10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
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Steady-State Microbunching using Optical Stochastic Cooling

THP078
14 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Poster Presentation MC2 - Photon Sources and Electron Accelerators THP: Thursday Poster Session

Speaker

Michael Wallbank (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Optical Stochastic Cooling (OSC) is a state-of-the-art beam cooling technology first demonstrated in 2021 at the IOTA storage ring at Fermilab's FAST facility. A second phase of the research program is planned to run in 2026 and will incorporate an optical amplifier to enable significantly increased cooling rates and greater operational flexibility.

In addition to beam cooling, an OSC system can be configured to enable advanced control over the phase space of the beam. An example operational mode could enable crystallization, where the particles in a bunch are locked into a self-reinforcing, regular microstructure at the OSC fundamental wavelength; we refer to this as Optical Stochastic Crystallization (OSX). OSX represents a new path toward Steady-State Microbunching (SSMB), which may enable light sources combining the high brightness of a free-electron laser with the high repetition rate of a storage ring.  Such a source has applications from the terahertz to the extreme ultraviolet (EUV), including high-power EUV generation for semiconductor lithography.

This contribution will discuss the integration of OSX development as part of the OSC program at IOTA. The design of an accelerator lattice to enable the mechanism and associated high fidelity simulations demonstrating the beam dynamics will be shown, and a path to realizing an experimental demonstration will be discussed.

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Authors

Jonathan Jarvis (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Michael Wallbank (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

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