20–24 Oct 2025
ADEIT
Europe/Zurich timezone

High Power Arbitrary RF Pulse Shaping Tests with NG-LLRF and C3 Prototype Structure

22 Oct 2025, 09:00
20m
Aula 2.3 (ADEIT)

Aula 2.3

ADEIT

Talk Normal-conducting RF systems Normal-conducting RF systems

Speaker

Chao Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

RF pulse modulation techniques are widely applied to shape RF pulses for various types of RF stations of particle accelerators. The amplitude and phase modulations are typically implemented with additional RF components that require drive or control electronics. For the RF system-on-chip (RFSoC) based generation LLRF (NG-LLRF) platform we developed in the last several years, the RF modulations and demodulations are fully implemented in digital domain. Therefore, arbitrary RF pulse shaping can be realized without any additional analogue components. We performed a range of high-power experiments with the NG-LLRF and a prototype Cool Copper Collider (C3) structure. In this paper, the RF field measured at different stages with different pulse shapes and peak power levels up to 16.45 MW will be demonstrated and analyzed. The high precision pulse shaping schemes of the NG-LLRF can be applied to realize the phase modulation for a linear accelerator injector, the phase reversal for a pulse compressor, or the modulation required to compensate for the beam loading effect.

Author

Chao Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Co-authors

Ankur Dhar (SLAC National Accelerator Lab) Dr Dennis Palmer Mr Diego Amirari Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Mr Ronald Agustsson

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