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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-FEL2015-WEB02
Title Waveguide THz FEL Oscillators
Authors
  • S.V. Miginsky, S. Bae, B.A. Gudkov, K.H. Jang, Y.U. Jeong, H.W. Kim, K. Lee, J. Mun, S. H. Park, G.I. Shim, N. Vinokurov
    KAERI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
  • S.V. Miginsky, N. Vinokurov
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract In today's world there is a significant demand for FEL-based THz radiation sources. They have a wide tuning range, a narrow band of radiation, and comparably high peak and average emission power. There are a significant number of these machines in the world, operating or in the development. The main difference between a long-wave FEL, of THz or a millimeter band, and a conventional one is a too big transverse size of the fundamental mode of an open optical resonator. It claims a large gap in an undulator that dramatically decreases its strength. Both factors sorely decrease the amplification and the efficiency, and often make lasing impossible. The main way to solve this problem is to use a waveguide optical resonator. It decreases and controls the transverse size of the fundamental mode. However, the waveguide causes a number of problems: power absorption in its walls; higher modes generation by inhomogeneities, as it is not ideal; electron beam injection into a FEL is more sophisticated; also outcoupling is more complicated; finally, the resonator detuning control claims some special solutions. The waveguide dispersion relation differs from one in the free space. It shifts up the wavelength of the FEL, changes the optimal detuning, and creates a parasitic mode near the critical wavelength of the waveguide. These problems and possible solutions to them are considered.
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Conference FEL2015, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Series International Free Electron Laser Conference (37th)
Proceedings Link to full FEL2015 Proccedings
Session FEL Oscillator
Date 26-Aug-15   10:30–12:00
Main Classification FEL Oscillator
Keywords FEL, injection, electron, extraction, 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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