Toward the Application of Reinforcement Learning to the Intensity Control of a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niky Bruchon ◽  
Gianfranco Fenu ◽  
Giulio Gaio ◽  
Marco Lonza ◽  
Felice Andrea Pellegrino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Intensity Control

scholarly journals Basic Reinforcement Learning Techniques to Control the Intensity of a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niky Bruchon ◽  
Gianfranco Fenu ◽  
Giulio Gaio ◽  
Marco Lonza ◽  
Finn Henry O’Shea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Free Electron ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Particle Accelerator ◽  
Particle Accelerators ◽  
Seed Laser ◽  
Model Free ◽  
Performance Recovery

Optimal tuning of particle accelerators is a challenging task. Many different approaches have been proposed in the past to solve two main problems—attainment of an optimal working point and performance recovery after machine drifts. The most classical model-free techniques (e.g., Gradient Ascent or Extremum Seeking algorithms) have some intrinsic limitations. To overcome those limitations, Machine Learning tools, in particular Reinforcement Learning (RL), are attracting more and more attention in the particle accelerator community. We investigate the feasibility of RL model-free approaches to align the seed laser, as well as other service lasers, at FERMI, the free-electron laser facility at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. We apply two different techniques—the first, based on the episodic Q-learning with linear function approximation, for performance optimization; the second, based on the continuous Natural Policy Gradient REINFORCE algorithm, for performance recovery. Despite the simplicity of these approaches, we report satisfactory preliminary results, that represent the first step toward a new fully automatic procedure for the alignment of the seed laser to the electron beam. Such an alignment is, at present, performed manually.

FAR INFRARED FREE ELECTRON LASER

1983 ◽  
Vol 44 (C1) ◽  
pp. C1-385-C1-385
Author(s):  
E. D. Shaw ◽  
R. M. Emanuelson ◽  
G. A. Herbster
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Far Infrared

FULLY QUANTIZED MANY PARTICLE THEORY OF A FREE-ELECTRON LASER

1983 ◽  
Vol 44 (C1) ◽  
pp. C1-367-C1-367
Author(s):  
W. Becker ◽  
J. K. McIver
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Particle Theory

Effect of Chirality by the Free Electron Laser Irradiation

2010 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Ishizuka ◽  
Keijiro Sakai ◽  
Nobuyuki Iwata ◽  
Hirofumi Yajima ◽  
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Laser Irradiation ◽  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser

X-Ray Free Electron Laser Facility for Next Generation of Scientific Exploration and Discovery

2011 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Etsuo FUJIWARA ◽  
Eiichi ANAYAMA ◽  
Yuichiro KATSUTA ◽  
Toshiki IZUTANI ◽  
Daichi OKUHARA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
Laser Facility

X-ray Free Electron Laser SACLA

2014 ◽  
Vol 134 (12) ◽  
pp. 836-839
Author(s):  
Junichi INOUE ◽  
Yuji TANAKA ◽  
Yuki MATSUMOTO ◽  
Kensuke KANDA
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
X Ray
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