Projects & References

Projects

LA3NET

Computer-based modeling and experimental optimization studies into novel high voltage supplies and generators.
AVA Project

High Stability, Rampable Power Supplies for keV Ion Beams.

LA3NET

November 2011
Foton, s.r.o., became a full partner of the international network – LA3NET.

Official project introduction
The exploitation of LAsers for Applications at Accelerator facilities for ion beam generation, acceleration and diagnostics is the goal of the new NETwork (LA3NET) within the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) scheme, coordinated by the University of Liverpool.

LA3NET

The exploitation of LAsers for Applications at Accelerator facilities for ion beam generation, acceleration and diagnostics is the goal of the new NETwork (LA3NET) within the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) scheme, coordinated by the University of Liverpool.

Lasers have become increasingly important for the successful operation and continuous optimization of particle accelerators: Laser-based particle sources are well suited for delivering the highest quality ion and electron beams, laser acceleration has demonstrated unprecedented accelerating gradients and might be an alternative for conventional particle accelerators in the future, and without laser-based beam diagnostics it would not be possible to unravel the characteristics of many complex particle beams.

The LA3-NET consortium proposes to develop laser applications for particle accelerators within an initial training network. The network brings together research centers, universities, and industry partners to jointly train the next generation of researchers. The partners aim at developing long term collaboration and links between the involved teams across sectors and disciplinary boundaries and to thus help defining improved research and training standards in this multi-faceted field.

Actual information
Please visit official LA3NET websites: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/la3net/projects/foton/

AVA Project

Critical for beam storage and energy ramping in a storage ring and efficient beam transport from a ring to the experiments are power supplies that have a stability of better than 10^-4, can be ramped over more than one order of magnitude in output voltage in 1 s over a linear ramp and that can be smoothly integrated into the accelerator control system.

In this project high precision power supplies will be designed, built and tested for use in the beam lines and rings within AVA. For this purpose a comprehensive data base showing the power supply requirements of all AVA experiments, the ELENA beam lines, as well as the ELENA and FLAIR rings in terms of voltage range, temperature and absolute stability, ramp speeds, etc. will be developed. This shall then be used to define a suitable interface for their seamless integration into the respective accelerator control system.

Prototypes of the supplies will then be designed, built and tested in collaboration with Fellows from across the network.

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ava/projects/foton/

Referential customers and projects

	Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
	Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
	Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic
	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
	Nuclear Research Institute plc, Rez, Czech Republic
	Skoda Auto a.s., Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic
	Extreme Light Infractructure (ELI), International project, Czech Republic
	LA3NET, International project, UK