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| Title | THz Based Phase-Space Manipulation in a Guided IFEL | |||||
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| Abstract | We propose a guided IFEL interaction driven by a broadband THz source to compress a relativistic electron bunch and synchronize it with an external laser pulse. A high field single-cycle THz pulse is group velocity-matched to the electron bunch inside a waveguide, allowing for a sustained interaction in a magnetic undulator. The THz pulse is generated via optical rectification from the external laser source, with peak field of up to 4.6 MV/m. We present measurements of the THz waveform before and after a parallel plate waveguide with varying aperture size and estimate the group velocity. We also present results from a preliminary 1-D multi-frequency simulation code we are developing to model the guided broadband IFEL interaction. Given a 6 MeV, 100 fs electron bunch with an initial 10⁻³ energy spread, as can be readily produced at the UCLA Pegasus laboratory, the simulations predict a phase space rotation of the bunch distribution that will reduce the initial timing jitter and compress the electron bunch by nearly an order of magnitude. | |||||
| Funding | This work has been supported by DOE grant DE-FG02-92ER40693, and NSF grant PHY-1415583. | |||||
| Paper | download TUP069.PDF [0.778 MB / 4 pages] | |||||
| Conference | FEL2015, Daejeon, Republic of Korea | |||||
| Series | International Free Electron Laser Conference (37th) | |||||
| Proceedings | Link to full FEL2015 Proccedings | |||||
| Session | Poster Session | |||||
| Date | 25-Aug-15 15:00–17:00 | |||||
| Main Classification | Electron Beam Dynamics | |||||
| Keywords | electron, laser, simulation, coupling, undulator | |||||
| Publisher | JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland | |||||
| Editors | Heung-Sik Kang (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Dong Eon Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); | |||||
| ISBN | 978-3-95450-134-2 | |||||
| Published | December 2015 | |||||
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