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To realize and test advanced accelerator concepts and hardware, a beamline is being reconfigured in the Linac Extension Area (LEA) of APS linac. A photo-cathode RF gun installed at the beginning of the APS linac will provide a low emittance…
Sirius is a Synchrotron Light Source Facility based on a 4th generation low emittance storage ring. The facility is presently in the final assembly phase in Campinas, Brazil, and comprises a 3 GeV electron storage ring, a full energy…
In this letter, we investigate the robust beamforming design for an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system featuring low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Taking into account…
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is the first x-ray laser user facility based upon a free electron laser (FEL). In addition to many other stringent requirements, the LCLS XFEL requires extraordinary beam quality to saturate at 1.5…
This work presents new experimental results on low-temperature (LT) characterization of local rf properties of passive superconducting (SC) microwave devices using a novel Laser Scanning Microscope (LSM). In this technique, a modulated…
The UNILAC was improved for high current performance by replacing the Wideroe prestripper accelerator by an RFQ and an IH-type DTL. In addition, one of two ion source terminals was equipped with high current sources of MUCIS- and…
This paper introduces an off-the-grid estimator for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, utilizing lifted atomic norm minimization (LANM). The key challenge in this scenario is that neither the transmit signals nor the…
In the framework of the Compact Light XLS project, a short ultra-high gradient linearizer working on the third harmonic of the main LINAC frequency is requested. Increasing gradients and reducing dimensions are requirements for XLS and all…
The forthcoming 6G and beyond wireless networks are anticipated to introduce new groundbreaking applications, such as Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), potentially leveraging much wider bandwidths at higher frequencies and using…
Significant transient beam loading effects were observed during beam commissioning tests of prototype II of the injector for the Accelerator Driven Sub-critical (ADS) system, which took place at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese…
The closed-off structure of the Fermilab Drift Tube Linac precludes a robust array of instrumentation from directly monitoring the H- beam that is accelerated from 750 keV to 116 MeV. To improve beam tuning and operational assessment of…
The normal conducting Annular Coupled Structure (ACS) is applied for 190-400 MeV part of high intensity proton linac for the J-PARC. The ACS operating frequency is 972 MHz. The J-PARC ACS is strongly based on the results of previous…
The LLRF of five of TRIUMF's ISAC-1 accelerator cavities have been replaced by 3 similar FPGA based system with different operating frequencies. These LLRF use internal digital phase locked loops for frequency generation and…
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a popular, fast elemental analysis technique used to determine the chemical composition of target samples, such as in industrial analysis of metals or in space exploration. Recently, there has…
The LCLS-II RF system physically spans ~700m and has strict requirements -- on the order of 20 fs -- on the phase stability of the accelerating RF fields in its SRF linac. While each LLRF rack is crudely temperature-stabilized, the weather…
This study proposes a radar-centric integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system utilizing a two-layer modulation scheme for vehicular networks. Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) chirps are jointly modulated via phase…
Extreme crowding of electromagnetic spectrum in recent years has led to the challenges in designing sensing and communications systems. Both systems require a broad range of bandwidth, thus resulting in competing interests in exploiting the…
Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are the most relevant technology for dynamic wavefront manipulation. They find diverse applications ranging from novel displays to optical and quantum communications. Among commercial SLMs for phase…
This paper proposes a novel foreground linearization scheme for a high-speed CS-DAC. The technique leverages neural networks (NNs) to derive a LUT that maps the inverse of the DAC transfer characteristic onto the input codes. The algorithm…
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabler of 6G. Unlike communication radio links, the sensing signal requires to experience round trips from many scatters. Therefore, sensing is more power-sensitive and faces a severer…