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TABLE 6.1: Summary of the measured effects of suppression techniques on the 2106<br />

MHz mode.<br />

Suppression Technique Effect on 2106 MHz mode<br />

Point-to-Point Focusing Stabilized<br />

Local Reflector 5.1 × Ith<br />

Rotator Stabilized<br />

the number of HOMs increases and/or better damping is obtained, the likelihood<br />

of overlapping modes increases and optical suppression techniques become less ef-<br />

fective. In fact, for large accelerators with many cryomodules, using these beam<br />

optical schemes in the presence of many HOMs can cause further destructive mode<br />

interference thus rendering these suppression techniques ineffective altogether.<br />

Recently, it has been proposed to fabricate elliptical RF cavities to deliberately<br />

break the cylindrical symmetry, thereby lifting the dipole HOM degeneracy and gen-<br />

erating a large frequency spread between the two polarizations [90]. Assuming the<br />

dipole modes are sufficiently separated in frequency from cavity to cavity, then using<br />

elliptical cavities in conjunction with coupled optical suppression techniques can be<br />

effective at increasing the threshold current in machines with many cryomodules<br />

[91].<br />

6.5 Summary<br />

Beam optical suppression techniques proved to be very effective at increasing<br />

the threshold current in the FEL Upgrade Driver. A summary of the various meth-<br />

ods and their effect on the 2106 MHz mode is displayed in Table 6.1.<br />

Using point-to-point focusing and the rotator, the 2106 MHz mode could be<br />

stabilized. However since point-to-point focusing cannot be arranged for each indi-<br />

vidual cavity in an accelerator with an extended linac, the usefulness of this method<br />

160<br />

is restricted to smaller machines or machines where dangerous HOMs are well local-

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