Experimental results of a YBCO bulk superconducting undulator magnetic optimization

Abstract

The magnetic field optimization of RE-Ba-Cu-O (REBCO, RE=rare earth) bulk superconducting undulators is a fundamental step toward their implementation in an accelerator driven photon source, like a synchrotron or a free electron laser. In this article, we propose a sorting algorithm to reduce the undulator’s phase error based on the reconstruction of the trapped current inside the bulks of a staggered array undulator. The results obtained with a YBCO short prototype field-cooled down to 10 K in a 10 T magnetic field are reported. Finally, its performance is critically discussed in light of 2D magnetic field maps of its individual components, obtained at LN_{2} after the magnetization tests.