Abstract: A method for controlling the momentum compaction in a beam of charged particles. The method includes a compaction-managed mirror bend achromat (CMMBA) that provides a beamline design that retains the large momentum acceptance of a conventional mirror bend achromat. The CMMBA also provides the ability to tailor the system momentum compaction spectrum as desired for specific applications. The CMMBA enables magnetostatic management of the longitudinal phase space in Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) thereby alleviating the need for harmonic linearization of the RF waveform.
Abstract: A readout circuit for an imaging detector that improves resolution and increases field of view in a display compared to traditional readout circuits. The readout circuit comprises two or more amplifiers that receive a row or column of outputs from the imaging detector. Subtraction circuitry, included in the readout circuit, receives the signals from the amplifiers, determines a fractional value of the sum of the signals, and subtracts the fractional value from each signal thereby producing both positive and negative signals. A rail to rail amplifier operating from a signale voltage supply eliminates one polarity of the signals making the signals unipolar. A combining circuit receives the unipolar signals and combines them to produce two readout circuit outputs that are transmitted to a computer to be displayed.
Abstract: A particle beam bending system having a geometry that applies active bending only beyond the chord of the orbit for any momentum component. Using this bending configuration, all momentum components emerge dispersed in position only; all trajectories are parallel by construction. Combining a pair of such bends with reflective symmetry produces a bend cell that is, by construction, achromatic to all orders. By the particular choice of 45° individual bends, a pair of such achromats can be used as the basis of a 180° recirculation arc. Other rational fractions of a full 180° bend serve equally well (e.g., 2 bends/cell×90°/bend×1 cell /arc; 2 bends/cell×30°/bend×3 cells/arc, etc), as do combinations of multiple bending numerologies (e.g., 2 bends/cell×22.5°/bend×2 cells+2 bends/cell×45°/bend×1 cell).
Abstract: A liquid light guide system for ultraviolet light is disclosed that has a light shaping arrangement for the emitted light, a stable liquid core and sheath and reliable and effective end closures. The end closures include a metal crimping arrangement that utilizes two layers of deformable materials to prevent cracking of endplugs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 17, 1997
Date of Patent:
April 20, 1999
Assignee:
Southeastern Univ. Research Assn., Inc.
Inventors:
Randolph Frank Wojcik, Stanislaw Majewski, Carl John Zorn, Brian Kross
Abstract: The present invention comprises an illumination system for specialized decorative lighting including a light source, a flexible plastic tube sheath for distributing the light to a remote location, a transparent liquid core filling the tube that has an index of refraction greater than that of the plastic tube and an arrangement where light coupled from the light source is caused to leak from the liquid light guide at desired locations for the purposes of specialized lighting, such as underwater illumination in swimming pools.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 15, 1996
Date of Patent:
August 25, 1998
Assignee:
Southeastern Univ. Research Assn., Inc.
Inventors:
Carl J. Zorn, Brian J. Kross, Stanislaw Majewski, Randolph F. Wojcik
Abstract: A liquid light guide system for ultraviolet light is disclosed that has a light shaping arrangement for the emitted light, a stable liquid core and sheath and reliable and effective end closures.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 1995
Date of Patent:
November 4, 1997
Assignee:
Southeastern Univ. Research Assn., Inc.
Inventors:
Brian J. Kross, Stanislaw Majewski, Carl J. Zorn, Lukasz A. Majewski