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A design has been established for IR and UV FELs within the Laser Proc
essing Consortium's (LPC) program for development and application of h
igh-average-power FELs for materials processing. Hardware prototyping
and testing for the IR portion of the system are underway. The driver
portion has been designed based on the superconducting radio-frequency
(SRF) technology now seeing large-scale application in the commission
ing of CEBAF, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, where
LPC activities are centered. As of July 1994, measurements of beam pe
rformance confirm SRF's benefits in beam quality and stability, which
are applicable to high-average-power FELs.