SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of X-Ray FEL Oscillators with Higher Out-Coupling Efficiency
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- CALABAZAS CREEK RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2018-04-09
- Contract end date
- 2019-04-08
- UEI
- M3LBSJNCR1Z5
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0001770
- Topic code
- 07a
Research abstract
Improved extraction efficiency is required for x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs), as current out- coupling efficiencies are approximately 4%- The current technique used in XFELs is based on SASE which is inherently noisy with large shot-to-shot variations in output power and spectrum- Calabazas Creek Research Inc- proposes to develop advanced XFEL oscillator designs with high out-coupling efficiencies based on the Regenerative Amplifier (RAFEL) concept- The RAFEL is a high-gain/low-Q oscillator where the optical field exponentiates to high powers in a single pass through the undulator- The program will use a powerful, mature, and parallelized existing code suite (MINERVA and OPC) to design advanced system components and simulate the performance-
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High Efficiency Multiple Beam Klystrons
- Multiple Beam Triode Based RF Sources
- High Efficiency Gyrotron Technology Development
- High Efficiency Klystron, 1.3 GHz, 200 kW CW
- Compact and Efficient Magnetron Source for Continuous Wave Microwave Power Generation
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Mixed precision efficiency improvements for multi-physics flow simulations
- Very High Efficiency X-ray FEL Oscillator
- Adaptive Relay Settings for Wide Area Coordination of the Power Grid
- Distributed, Active Grid-Interrogation and Signal Analysis for Advanced Protective Relaying
- Passive wireless sensors for prevention of arcing failures in protective circuits
Research funding history
138 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2024). Reported award amounts total $43,761,170. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation