ELBE High Power RF System

The ELBE accelerator at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has been commissioned in 2001 using klystron power amplifiers. In the course of a major machine upgrade in 2012, solid state power amplifiers have been installed to drive the superconducting cavities and to increase the maximum beam current to 1.6 mA. The talk will introduce the high power radio frequency system of the continuous wave (CW) accelerator ELBE, wrap-up the operational experience and will give an outlook to the potential successor of machine called DALI.