Author: Bandurkin, I.V.
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TUP001 THz Photo-Injector FEM Based on Spontaneous Coherent Emission from a Bunch of Negative-Mass Electrons 317
 
  • A.V. Savilov, I.V. Bandurkin
    IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
 
  The use of short dense electron bunches produced form a photo-injector gun is attractive for realization of a THz FEL based on spontaneous coherent emission from such bunches. This type of emission is realized, when the axial length of bunches is shorter that the wavelength of the radiated wave. Therefore, the length of the operating region of such a FEL is strictly limited by degradation (an increase in the axial size) of the e-bunch caused by both the Coulomb repulsion and the velocity spread. The use of the regime of the 'negative mass' can be a way to provide stabilization of the axial size of e-bunches. Such a regime is realized in a magnetostatic undulator with a guiding homogeneous axial magnetic field. If the electron cyclotron frequency (corresponding to the guiding magnetic field) exceeds the bounce-frequency of electron oscillations in the periodic undulator field, then the abnormal dependence of the axial velocity of electrons on their energy takes place (an increase in the energy leads to a decrease in the axial velocity). In such regime, axial Coulomb repulsion of the electrons leads to their mutual attraction which slows down bunch degradation. The use of this regime results in a substantial increase in the length of the spontaneous coherent emission, and, therefore, in an increase in both the duration and the power of the output radiation pulse.
The work was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation (RSCF), Project no. 14-19-01723
 
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