IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Jiang, Y.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPC060	A Multi-mode RF Photocathode Gun	1135
	S.V. Kuzikov, A.A. Vikharev IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia J.L. Hirshfield Yale University, Physics Department, New Haven, CT, USA Y. Jiang Yale University, Beam Physics Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut, USA V. Vogel DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	A photocathode injection gun based on standard emittance compensating techniques and driven by several (N ≥ 2) harmonically related RF sources is considered. Multi-harmonic excitation can provide high-quality flatness in time of the field at the cathode when a bunch is being injected. This allows one to obtain ≥1 nC, 20-40 ps electron bunches with preservation of low emittance. Another advantage is a reduction of Ohmic losses and the required input RF power (for a given cathode field). Preliminary calculations show that input power in a three-mode cavity (0.65 GHz, 1.3 GHz, 2.6 GHz) is nearly half the power needed to feed a single mode with the same cathode field. A further appealing property is the predicted increase of breakdown threshold due to a reduction of surface exposure time to high fields in a symmetric cavity, and due to the so-called anode-cathode effect in a longitudinally asymmetric cavity. These properties may help one to reach bunch energies as high as 3-5 MeV after the first half cell.

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A Multi-mode RF Photocathode Gun

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S.V. Kuzikov, A.A. Vikharev
IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
J.L. Hirshfield
Yale University, Physics Department, New Haven, CT, USA
Y. Jiang
Yale University, Beam Physics Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
V. Vogel
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

A photocathode injection gun based on standard emittance compensating techniques and driven by several (N ≥ 2) harmonically related RF sources is considered. Multi-harmonic excitation can provide high-quality flatness in time of the field at the cathode when a bunch is being injected. This allows one to obtain ≥1 nC, 20-40 ps electron bunches with preservation of low emittance. Another advantage is a reduction of Ohmic losses and the required input RF power (for a given cathode field). Preliminary calculations show that input power in a three-mode cavity (0.65 GHz, 1.3 GHz, 2.6 GHz) is nearly half the power needed to feed a single mode with the same cathode field. A further appealing property is the predicted increase of breakdown threshold due to a reduction of surface exposure time to high fields in a symmetric cavity, and due to the so-called anode-cathode effect in a longitudinally asymmetric cavity. These properties may help one to reach bunch energies as high as 3-5 MeV after the first half cell.