Fabrication and cold test of photonic band gap resonators and accelerator structures
Evgenya I. Smirnova,
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Ivan Mastovsky, Michael A. Shapiro, and Richard J. Temkin
Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 167 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Lawrence M. Earley and Randall L. Edwards
Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
(Received 24 June 2005; published 20 September 2005)
We present the detailed description of the successful design and cold test of photonic band gap (PBG)
resonators and traveling-wave accelerator structures. Those tests provided the essential basis for later hot
test demonstration of the first PBG accelerator structure at 17.140 GHz [E. I. Smirnova, A. S. Kesar, I.
Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 074801 (2005).]. The advantage of PBG
resonators is that they were built to support only the main, TM
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-like, accelerator mode while not
confining the higher-order modes (HOM) or wakefields. The design of the PBG resonators was based on a
triangular lattice of rods, with a missing rod at the center. Following theoretical analysis, the rod radius
divided by the rod spacing was held to a value of about 0.15 to avoid supporting HOM. For a single-cell
test the PBG structure was fabricated in X-band (11 GHz) and brazed. The mode spectrum and Q factor
(Q 5 000) agreed well with theory. Excellent HOM suppression was evident from the cold test. A six-
cell copper PBG accelerator traveling-wave structure with reduced long-range wakefields was designed
and was built by electroforming at Ku-band (17.140 GHz). The structure was tuned by etching the rods.
Cold test of the structure yielded excellent agreement with the theoretical design. Successful results of the
hot test of the structure demonstrating the acceleration of the electron beam were published in E. I.
Smirnova, A. S. Kesar, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 074801 (2005).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.8.091302 PACS numbers: 29.17.+w, 41.75.Lx, 42.70.Qs, 84.40.2x
I. INTRODUCTION
Two-dimensional (2D) metallic photonic band gap
(PBG) structures [1] have received considerable attention
recently, because of their possible applications in accelera-
tors [2,3]. Future linear accelerator operating frequencies
may increase from S-band to X- and possibly to Ku-band or
higher frequency band, because the higher frequency im-
proves the energy efficiency of the accelerator. At high
frequencies, it is crucial to use new accelerating cavities
that suppress wakefields, because the excitation of wake-
fields intensifies with frequency and the wakefields induce
transverse motion of electrons and emittance growth [4,5].
PBG structures may be applied for constructing the accel-
erating cavities with long-range wakefield suppression,
based on their remarkable properties to reflect waves in
certain ranges of frequencies (called ‘‘global band gaps’’)
while allowing other frequencies to propagate. We experi-
mentally demonstrate that the use of PBG structures is a
promising approach to long-range wakefield suppression.
A PBG structure, or simply photonic crystal, represents
a periodic lattice of macroscopic pieces, metallic, dielec-
tric or both [6]. For accelerator applications, we employ a
two-dimensional metallic photonic band gap structure,
which is formed by a triangular array of copper rods [7].
We form a ‘‘PBG cavity’’ by removing a rod in the periodic
structure (Fig. 1). The mode, which has a frequency in the
band gap, will not be able to propagate out transversely
through the bulk of the PBG structure and will thus be
localized inside the PBG cavity around the defect. First
attempts to study 2D PBG resonators based on arrays of
metal rods were made by the authors of [2,8]. Smith et al.
[8] constructed and tested a metallic 2D PBG resonator.
Mode confinement in this resonator was successfully
proven. However, higher-order mode (HOM) suppression
a
FIG. 1. The geometry of a PBG resonator formed by removing
a single rod in a triangular array.
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