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Superconducting Wigglers and Undulators

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Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers

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Superconducting wigglers (SCWs) were introduced about 40 years ago and since then have been extensively used at many synchrotron radiation (SR) facilities around the world. The technology of SCWs progressed significantly due to innovative designs and the use of novel materials. SCWs have been established as reliable tools and are a standard attribute of many SR facilities. They became the hard X-ray radiation source of choice for the majority of low- and medium-energy x-ray light sources. SCWs greatly increased the capabilities of these sources by extending the accessible radiation wavelength range below 1 Å. The majority of SCWs have been designed and built at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Although the first superconducting undulator (SCU) was built almost at the same time as the first SCW, the progress in the development of SCUs was much slower compared with SCWs. This was mostly due to the fact that major investments went to the development and production of permanent magnet undulators. In the last two decades, there were several attempts to establish an SCU as a radiation source for an operational SR facility, but it was only relatively recently, when the SCU program was given significant funding priority at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), that SCUs attained a level of performance adequate enough to move from the research and development phase to the operational phase on a daily basis. That investment has resulted in the design and fabrication of several SCUs that are currently operating in the APS ring.

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Abbreviations

ACO:

Storage ring in Orsay, France

ALBA:

Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Barcelona, Spain

ANKA:

Storage ring in Karlsruhe, Germany

APS:

Advanced Photon Source, Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Chicago, USA

AS:

Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia

BESSY-II:

Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Berlin, Germany

BINP:

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia

CAMD:

Storage ring in Baton Rouge, USA

CLS:

Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Canada

DELTA:

Center for Synchrotron Radiation, Dortmund, Germany

DIAMOND:

Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Oxford, UK

ELLETRA:

Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Trieste, Italy

ESRF:

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

FEL:

Free Electron Laser

KIT:

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

LSU:

Louisiana State University

NSRRC:

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan

SC:

Superconducting

SCAPE:

Superconducting arbitrary polarized emitter

SCU:

Superconducting undulator

SCW:

Superconducting wiggler

SPring-8:

Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Japan

SR:

Synchrotron radiation

VEPP-2 M:

Storage ring in Novosibirsk, Russia

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    Efim Gluskin

  2. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Nikolai Mezentsev

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Gluskin, E., Mezentsev, N. (2019). Superconducting Wigglers and Undulators. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04507-8_61-1

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