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    Extensive study of magneto-optical and optical properties of Cd1−xMnxTe between 675 and 1025 nm
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2023) Tyborski, Christoph; Hassan, Muhammad T.; Flisgen, Thomas; Schiemangk, Max; Wicht, Andreas
    We determine Faraday rotations and measure the optical reflection and transmission from magneto-optical Cd1−xMnxTe crystals with various stoichiometric ratios. For wavelengths between 675 and 1025 nm, we derive Verdet constants, optical loss coefficients, and the complex indices of reflection that are relevant measures to find suitable stoichiometric ratios of Cd1−xMnxTe for the realization of miniaturized optical isolators. By reflection and transmission measurements, we determine the stoichiometric ratios of several different Cd1−xMnxTe crystals and discuss the observed dependence of the optical properties on the stoichiometric ratio with respect to their use in optical isolators. Finally, we show the relevant figure of merit, i.e., the ratio of Verdet constants and optical loss coefficients for Cd1−xMnxTe crystals with Mn contents ranging from x = 0.14 to x = 0.50.
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    Temperature dependence of the complex permittivity in microwave range of some industrial polymers
    (New York, NY : American Inst. of Physics, 2022) Porteanu, Horia-Eugen; Kaempf, Rudolf; Flisgen, Thomas; Heinrich, Wolfgang
    The microwave properties of a number of polymers common in industry are investigated. A cylindrical resonator in the TM012 mode is used. The cavity perturbation method and detailed COMSOL simulations are applied for extracting the complex permittivity as a function of temperature. The results are useful for the design of plastic processing tools by heating with electromagnetic fields. The intrinsic parameters of absorption are derived based on two exponential decays: polarization and Arrhenius dependence of the decay times on temperature.
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    Generalization of coupled S-parameter calculation to compute beam impedances in particle accelerators
    (College Park, MD : American Physical Society, 2020) Flisgen, Thomas; Gjonaj, Erion; Glock, Hans-Walter; Tsakanian, Andranik
    In this article, a decomposition approach for the computation of beam coupling impedances is proposed. This approach can account for the mutual electromagnetic coupling in long accelerator structures consisting of several consecutive segments. The method is based on the description of the individual segments using a multimodal network matrix formulation in which the charged particle beam is considered as an additional port. Then, the generalized multimodal network matrices of all segments are combined to a multimodal network matrix of the complete structure. The beam coupling impedance as well as the scattering parameters of the full structure are recovered as particular matrix elements in this multimodal network matrix. The new method generalizes Coupled S-Parameter Calculation (CSC) introduced in earlier work such that charged particle beams are considered. Consequently, the introduced scheme is referred to as CSC. Application examples for realistic accelerator components such as the simulation of a full TESLA 1.3 GHz-cavity of the European XFEL are provided. These simulations demonstrate the high accuracy and numerical performance of the proposed method.
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    Influence of vacuum chamber port terminations on beam coupling impedances
    (College Park, MD : American Physical Society, 2023) Flisgen, Thomas; Gorgi Zadeh, Shahnam; Gjonaj, Erion
    Vacuum chambers of particle accelerators are typically equipped with radio-frequency couplers. The couplers are employed to excite modes for particle acceleration, to extract the energy of higher-order modes, or for diagnostic purposes. From a network theory perspective, these couplers represent terminal ports by which means the structure can exchange energy with its exterior. Usually, these ports are terminated with fixed impedances corresponding to the characteristic impedances of the coaxial lines attached to them. In this paper, we investigate the influence of the termination conditions of vacuum chambers on beam coupling impedances. For this purpose, we introduce a novel approach that allows us to determine beam coupling impedances for arbitrary port terminations. A full-wave Maxwell solver is employed to determine a generalized scattering matrix of the vacuum chamber and its couplers terminated with prespecified reference impedances. Often, these impedances are chosen to be the characteristic line impedances of the waveguides so that coupler ports are free of reflection. Using the generalized scattering matrix, the beam coupling impedances can be readily determined by means of a computationally inexpensive postprocessing step that takes into account arbitrary impedance loads at the coupler ports. Thus, the influence of various port terminations on the beam coupling impedances can be conveniently examined. This is relevant to improve older structures that were designed when no sophisticated design tools were available or to improve the operation of existing structures for a purpose they were initially not designed for. Using the proposed approach, we investigate the 33-cell 200 MHz traveling-wave accelerating structures of the SPS at CERN. It is shown that port termination conditions do have an important influence on the beam coupling impedance and, therefore, must be taken into account in beam stability considerations.