Stable Low Noise RF Source for Main Ring

The Duke Storage ring is a 1 Gev electron ring, which is designed for driving UV-VUV FEL [1]. It also provides variable energy high intensive gamma rays by Compton back scattering. It requires an RF master oscillator with very low phase noise. We built a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Oscillator. However, the long-term stability does not meet requirements for FEL ring. Previously we used a commercial signal generator HP 4400B as the master oscillator. It has excellent long-term stability, but the phase noise is not acceptable. A phase feedback loop has been added between the SAW oscillator and the HP source, which provides us an excellent RF source. The design details and the test results are presented in this paper.