Free-electron laser

CPI Beverly Microwave Division Awarded Production Contract For Fundamental Power Couplers For LCLS-II HE Program

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Physical sciences, Physics, Natural sciences, Accelerator physics, CPI International, United States Department of Energy national laboratories, Electron beam, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Free-electron laser, European XFEL, Microwave, Superconductivity

CPI's fundamental power couplers will provide the critical interface between the accelerator's microwave power source operating at room temperature and the superconducting accelerator cavities, which operate at a temperature approaching absolute zero.

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  • CPI's fundamental power couplers will provide the critical interface between the accelerator's microwave power source operating at room temperature and the superconducting accelerator cavities, which operate at a temperature approaching absolute zero.
  • Headquartered in Beverly, Mass., CPI's Beverly Microwave Division has provided power couplers for many of the world's preeminent superconducting accelerators in the last 20 years, including the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) and the LCLS-II at SLAC.
  • CPI Beverly Microwave Division is excited to continue our support of the accelerator community and its vital research.
  • CPI consists of Communications & Power Industries LLC, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and Communications & Power Industries Canada Inc., located in Ontario, Canada.

Inprentus Awarded a High Value Contract to Supply the European X-ray Free Electron Laser with a Diffraction Grating for Real-time Beam Diagnostics

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Optics, Electromagnetic radiation, Physical sciences, Diffraction, European XFEL, Science and technology in Europe, Diffraction grating, Grating, Free-electron laser

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --A contract has been awarded to Inprentus for the custom manufacture of an elliptical diffraction grating with variable line spacing.

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  • CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --A contract has been awarded to Inprentus for the custom manufacture of an elliptical diffraction grating with variable line spacing.
  • This unique diffraction grating will be part of the diagnostics instrumentation on the SQS soft X-ray instrument at the 3.4 km long European XFEL located in the German states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
  • "This is the second time Inprentus has been chosen to supply European XFEL with an ultra-high precision custom diffraction grating," said Ron van Os, CEO of Inprentus.
  • Inprentus designs, manufactures, and sells X-ray and EUV diffraction gratings for synchrotron and free electron laser facilities.