Author: Miller, R.J.D.
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WEOAB03 Linear Electron Acceleration in THz Waveguides 1896
 
  • E.A. Nanni, W.S. Graves, K.-H. Hong, W.R. Huang, F.X. Kärtner, KR. Ravi, L.J. Wong
    MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • A. Fallahi, F.X. Kärtner
    CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
  • R.J.D. Miller
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • G. Moriena
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
  Funding: Supported by DARPA N66001-11-1-4192, CFEL DESY, DOE DEFG02-10ER46745, DOE DE-FG02-08ER41532, ERC Synergy Grant 609920 and NSF DMR-1042342.
We report the first experimental demonstration of linear electron acceleration using an optically generated single cycle THz pulse centered at 0.45 THz. 7 keV of acceleration is achieved using 10 microJ THz pulses in a 3 mm interaction length. The THz pulse is produced via optical rectification of a 1.2 mJ, 1 micron laser pulse with a 1 kHz repetition rate. The THz pulse is coupled into a dielectric-loaded circular waveguide with 10 MeV/m on-axis accelerating gradient. A 25 fC input electron bunch is produced with a 60 keV DC photo-emitting cathode. The achievable accelerating gradient in the THz structures being investigated will scale rapidly by increasing the IR pulse energy (100 mJ - 1 J) and correspondingly the THz pulse energy. Additionally, with recent advances in the generation of THz pulses via optical rectification, in particular improvements to efficiency and generation of multi-cycle pulses, GeV/m accelerating gradients could be achieved. An ultra-compact high-gradient THz accelerator would be of interest for a wide variety of applications.
 
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