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TY - CONF AU - Wu, Z. AU - Fang, K. AU - Wang, M.-H. AU - Wu, J. ED - Henderson, Stuart ED - Akers, Evelyn ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Narrowband Continuously Tunable Radiation in the 5 to 10 Terahertz Range by Inverse Compton Scattering J2 - Proc. of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA, May 3-8, 2015 C1 - Richmond, VA, USA T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 6 LA - english AB - 5 to 10 THz has recently become the frontier of THz radiation sources development, pushed by the growing interests of spectroscopy and pump-probe material study in this frequency range. This spectrum “Gap” lies in between the several THz range covered by Electro-Optical crystal based THz generation, and the tens of THz range covered by the difference frequency generation method. The state-of-the-art EO crystal THz source using tilted pulse front technique has been able to reach ~ 100 MV/m peak field strength, large enough to be used in an inverse Compton scattering process to push these low energy photons to shorter wavelengths of the desired 5-10 THz range. The required electron beam energy is within 1~2 MeV, therefore a compact footprint of the whole system. The process would occur coherently granted the electron beam is bunched to a fraction of the radiation wavelengths (several microns). A system operating at KHz or even MHz repetition rate is possible given the low electron energy and thus low RF acceleration gradient required. This work will explore the scheme with design parameters and simulation results. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1901 EP - 1903 KW - electron KW - laser KW - radiation KW - photon KW - scattering DA - 2015/06 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-168-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-TUPMA030 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2015/papers/tupma030.pdf ER -