Author: Bauer, C.
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MOOBNO04
First Light from the ELBE THz Radiation Facility  
 
  • U. Lehnert, C. Bauer, M. Gensch, B.W. Green, S. Kovalev, M. Kuntzsch, W. Seidel
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • T. Golz, A. Shemmary, N. Stojanovic
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  A new super-radiant THz source has successfully been put into operation at the ELBE radiation source. The facility combines a broad-band transition or diffraction radiation source with an 8 period undulator. Both sources are inherently synchronized by generating radiation from the same electron bunch. This, together with the possibility to operate the machine in CW with repetition rates of 100kHz to 13MHz makes the new source a very versatile tool for a broad range of experiments, particularly for THz based electron bunch diagnostics. With the low beam energy (our first experiments were done at 28 MeV) the bunch compression becomes a major challenge. We have generated coherent radiation with wavelengths as short as 200 microns indicating a compression of a major fraction of the bunch into a pulse with 200 fs bunchlength. Our design target is a compression down to 100 fs and to reach 100 micron wavelength (3THz).  
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