FEL2012 - List of Authors (Piot, P.)

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WEPD19	Design of a Proof-of-principle Experiment Toward the Generation of Coherent Optical Radiation using a 4-MeV Electron Beam	413
	Y.-E. Sun Fermilab, Batavia, USA W.S. Graves MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA D. Mihalcea, H. Panuganti, P. Piot Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
	Transverse-to-longitudinal phase space exchange techniques have open new possibilities toward shaping the temporal distribution of electron bunches. Recently, the combination of such exchange methods with structured, e.g. field-emission, cathodes was suggested as the backbone of compact coherent short-wavelength sources [W. S. Graves, {\em et al.}, ArXiv:1202.0318 (2012)]. In this paper, we present the design and numerical investigation of a proof-of-principle experiment to produce coherent optical transition radiation using a ~4-MeV electron bunch. The optically-modulated bunch is produced from a structured cathode combined with a transverse-to-longitudinal phase space exchanger. The current status of the experiment are also summarized. This work was supported by DOE grants DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FG02-08ER41532, and DARPA grant N66001-11-1-4192.

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Design of a Proof-of-principle Experiment Toward the Generation of Coherent Optical Radiation using a 4-MeV Electron Beam

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Y.-E. Sun
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
W.S. Graves
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
D. Mihalcea, H. Panuganti, P. Piot
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Transverse-to-longitudinal phase space exchange techniques have open new possibilities toward shaping the temporal distribution of electron bunches. Recently, the combination of such exchange methods with structured, e.g. field-emission, cathodes was suggested as the backbone of compact coherent short-wavelength sources [W. S. Graves, {\em et al.}, ArXiv:1202.0318 (2012)]. In this paper, we present the design and numerical investigation of a proof-of-principle experiment to produce coherent optical transition radiation using a ~4-MeV electron bunch. The optically-modulated bunch is produced from a structured cathode combined with a transverse-to-longitudinal phase space exchanger. The current status of the experiment are also summarized.
This work was supported by DOE grants DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FG02-08ER41532, and DARPA grant N66001-11-1-4192.