• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.143-147
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• 2001

The dosimetric properties of Ge- and Er-doped optical fibres are studied. The Ge-doped fibre is found to be more sensitive to radiation and there is little fading of TL signal compared with Er-doped fibre. The Ge- and Er-doped fibres showed a linear response over a range of ${\sim}1\;Gy$ to about 120 Gy and ${\sim}1Gy$ to about 250Gy respectively. The Ge-doped fibre is found to be dose-rate independent both for photons and electron beams of energy ranging from 6 to 10 MeV and 6 to 12 MeV respectively. The fibre is energy independent for energy greater than ${\sim}0.1\;MeV$ for photon or 0.1 MeV for electron beam. From the depth-dose measurement, it was found that the position of maximum dose, dmax, increased with increasing energy ranging from ${\sim}2\;cm$ and ${\sim}2.5\;cm$ for 6 MeV and 10 MeV photons respectively. The central axis percentage depth dose at 10 cm depth was found to be in good agreement with the value obtained using ionization chamber.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2009

In a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator, the ponderomotive force of an ultrashort high intensity laser pulse excites a longitudinal wave or plasma bubble in a way similar to the excitation of a wake wave behind a boat as it propagates on the water surface. Electric fields inside the plasma bubble can be several orders of magnitude higher than those available in conventional RF-based particle accelerator facilities which are limited by material breakdown. Therefore, if an electron bunch is properly phase-locked with the bubble's acceleration field, it can gain relativistic energies within an extremely short distance. Here, in the bubble regime we show the generation of stable and reproducible sub GeV, and GeV-class electron beams. Supported by three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, our experimental results show the highest acceleration gradients produced so far. Simulations suggested that the plasma bubble elongation should be minimized in order to achieve higher electron beam energies.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2004년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.64-67
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• 2004

The klystron-modulator(K&M) system of the Pohang Light Source(PLS) had been supplying high power microwaves for the acceleration of 2.5 GeV electron beams since October 2002. There are 12 sets of K&M systems to accelerate electron beams to 2.5GeV nominal beam energy. One module of the K&M system consists of an 80 MV S-band (2856 MHZ) klystron tube and the matching 200 MW modulator. In order to obtain electron beam of the consequently stability for linac, the pulse-to-pulse beam voltage regulation is less than $+/-0.5\%$. To get the reliable stability of the modulator which is less than $+/-0.5\%$, a charging section is improved in a modulator which has been operated with inverter power supply.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.447-456
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• 2005

Laser driven accelerators promise to provide an alternative to conventional accelerator technology. They rely on the excitation of large amplitude density waves in a plasma by the photon pressure of an intense laser. The density oscillations in which electrons and ions are separated, result in extremely large longitudinal electric fields that can be several orders of magnitude larger than those that are used in today's radio-frequency accelerators. Whereas this principle had been demonstrated experimentally for nearly two decades, it was not until 2004 that the production of high quality electron beams around 100 MeV was demonstrated. Analysis, aided by particle-in-cell simulations, as well as experiments with various plasma lengths and densities, indicate that tailoring the length of the accelerator, together with loading of the accelerating structure with beam, are the keys to production of mono-energetic electron beams. Increasing the energy towards a GeV and beyond will require reducing the plasma density and design criteria are discussed for an optimized accelerator module. The current progress and future directions are summarized through comparison with conventional accelerators, highlighting the unique short and long term prospects for intense radiation sources and high energy accelerators based on laser-drivenplasma accelerators.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1365-1367
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• 1995

The PLS 2-GeV linac employs 11 units of high-power pulsed klystrons(80MW) as the main RF sources. The matching modulators of 200 MW(400kV, 500 A) can provide a flat-top pulse width of 4.4 ${\mu}s$ with a maximum pulse repetition rate of 120 Hz at the full power level. For a good stability of electron beams, the pulse-to-pulse flat-top voltage variation of a modulator requires less than 0.5%. In order to achieve this goal, we stabilized high voltage charging power supplies within 1% by a phase controlled SCR voltage regulator. In addition, we employed ac/dc feedback together with a resistive De-Q'ing system to achieve far less than 0.5% variation of the PFN charging voltage. This paper presents the main feature of the klystron-modulator system and the characteristics of the pulsed high-power RF system performance during the beam injection operation for the Pohang Light Source commissioning.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2008년도 하계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.331-332
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• 2008

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2009

하이퍼써멀 영역의 에너지 ($1{\sim}100\;eV$), 특히, 50 eV 이하의 에너지를 갖는 높은($10^{16}$ particles/$cm^2\;s$ 이상) 플럭스의 이온빔을 직접 인출하기는 어렵지만, 이온을 중성화한 중성입자빔 경우에는 가능하다. 높은 플럭스의 하이퍼써멀 중성입자빔을 생성하고 효율적으로 수송하기 위해서는 낮은 플라즈마 운전압력(0.3 mTorr 이하)에서도 높은 이온밀도($10^{11}\;cm^{-3}$ 이상)를 유지할 수 있는 대면적 플라즈마 발생원이 요구된다. 이러한 하이퍼써멀 중성입자빔의 생성을 위해 요구되는 플라즈마 발생원을 구현하기 위해서는 자기장에 의한 전자가둠 방식이 도입되어야 하는데, 영구자석을 이용한 다양한 자기장 구조를 갖는 Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) 플라즈마 발생 방식이 하나의 해결 방법이 될 수 있음을 제안하였다. 여기에는 마그네트론 구조를 갖는 자기장을 채택한 평면형 ECR 플라즈마 발생 방식과 원통형 플라즈마 용기 외벽 둘레에 영구자석 어레이를 설치하여 축방향 자기장을 형성하고 용기 중심부에 전자를 가두는 원통형 방식이 있다. 두 경우 모두 기본적으로 mirror field 구조에 의한 전자 가둠을 기반으로 하고 전자의 drift에 의해 더욱 효율적으로 전자를 플라즈마 공간에 가두는 방식을 도입하고 있어서 낮은 운전압력에서도 높은 밀도의 플라즈마를 발생시키고 유지할 수 있다.