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le were experimentally measured. Due to the nature of BBU - that it involves the<br />
properties of the beam (average current and energy), the machine lattice (transfer<br />
matrices) and the properties of the HOMs (frequency, QL, (R/Q) and polarization)<br />
- a number of different measurements were required. There also is the necessity for<br />
techniques to accurately measure the threshold current. The beam transfer func-<br />
tion measurement has been used for many decades and has now been successfully<br />
applied, along with measuring the HOM growth rates, to measure the threshold<br />
current.<br />
It is important to keep in mind that BBU work reported in this dissertation<br />
addresses a specific regime; namely, a machine with only a few very high Q dipole<br />
modes which are localized in a single cryomodule in a relatively compact machine.<br />
Furthermore, in frequency space, the modes are well separated so that for decoupled<br />
optics, coupling between modes is not an issue. Because of these characteristics, all<br />
of the suppression techniques implemented were, to varying degrees, successful at<br />
increasing the threshold current for stability.<br />
Three different beam optical suppression techniques were implemented; point-<br />
to-point focusing, a rotator and a local reflector. The first two were able to suppress<br />
BBU due to the 2106 MHz mode completely, while the local reflector increased the<br />
threshold by a factor of 5.1. The latter two techniques are notable in that they<br />
required the introduction of strong transverse coupling in the electron beam optics.<br />
Additionally, two different cavity-based feedback systems were developed and proved<br />
to be successful at increasing the threshold current by factors of a few.<br />
Finally, some initial studies of the feasibility of a beam-based feedback system<br />
for an ERL were presented. Such a beam-based system incorporates the advantages<br />
of both beam optical control and cavity-based feedback methods of suppression. In<br />
addition to showing the validity of a modified threshold current formula to include<br />
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feedback, simulation results also explored the behavior of the BBU threshold current