Curt Hovater Staff Engineer

Contact:

• Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators
  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
• 757-269-7685 (phone)
  757-269-7658 (fax)
• hovater@jlab.org

Education:

• B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, May 1986
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Old Dominion University, December 1998

Career:

• Technician, Jiffy Lube, 1984-1986
• RF Engineer, ST Research, 1986-1987
• Staff Engineer, CEBAF, 1988- 1994,
• RF Deputy Group Leader, Jefferson Lab, 1995 – 1996,
• RF Electronic Support Group Leader, Jefferson lab, 1997 – 2001,

Research Highlights:

• RF Systems
• Solid-state Lasers
• Accelerator Beam Diagnostics

Selected Recent Publications

• “A DSP Based Beam Current Monitoring System for Machine Protection Using Adaptive Filtering”,
  J. Musson, H. Dong, R. Flood, J. Hereford, C. Hovater;
  2001 PAC Conference Proceedings
  
  
• “RF Control Requirements for the CEBAF Energy Upgrade Cavities”,
  C. Hovater et. al., LINAC 2000 Conference Proceedings.
  
  
• “Injection Modelocked Ti-Sapphire Laser with Discreetly Variable Pulse Repetition Rates to 1.56 GHz,”
  C. Hovater and M. Poelker, Nucl. Instr. And Meth. A418, 280 (1998).

Professional Activities

• Member IEEE
• Member of the CNU Physics, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Advisory Board
• Organized the first International Workshop on Low-Level RF Controls for Superconducting Linacs, Jefferson Lab, April 2001