| Title |
A New Accelerating Mode in a Silicon Woodpile Structure and Its High-efficiency Power Coupler Design |
| Authors |
- Z. Wu, R.J. England, C. Lee, C.-K. Ng, K.P. Wootton
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
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| Abstract |
Silicon woodpile photonic crystals provide a base structure that can be used to build a three-dimensional dielectric waveguide system for high-gradient laser-driven acceleration. A new woodpile waveguide design that hosts a phase synchronous, centrally confined accelerating mode with ideal Gaussian transverse profile is proposed. Comparing with previously discovered silicon woodpile accelerating modes, this mode shows advantages in better beam loading and higher achievable acceleration gradient. Several travelling-wave coupler design schemes developed for multi-cell RF cavity accelerators are adapted to the woodpile accelerator coupler design based on this new accelerating mode. A forward-wave-coupled, highly efficient silicon woodpile accelerator is achieved. Simulation shows high efficiency of over 70% of the drive laser power coupled to this fundamental woodpile accelerating mode, with less than 15% backward wave excitation. The estimated acceleration gradient, when the coupler structure is driven at the damage threshold fluence of silicon at its operating 1.506 um wavelength, can reach roughly 185 MV/m.
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| Funding |
Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy under Grants DE-AC02-76SF00515, DE-FG02-13ER41970 and by DARPA Grant N66001-11-1-4199. |
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| Conference |
IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (6th) |
| Proceedings |
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| Session |
Wednesday Posters (Jefferson) |
| Date |
06-May-15 16:00–18:00 |
| Main Classification |
3: Alternative Particle Sources and Acceleration Techniques |
| Sub Classification |
A16 - Advanced Concepts |
| Keywords |
laser, acceleration, coupling, simulation, electron |
| Publisher |
JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editors |
Stuart Henderson (ANL, Argonne, IL, USA); Evelyn Akers (Jlab, Newport News, VA, USA); Todd Satogata (JLab, Newport News, VA, USA); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| ISBN |
978-3-95450-168-7 |
| Published |
June 2015 |
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