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| MOPIK004 | Demonstration of an All-Optically Driven Sub-keV THz Gun | 503 |
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Funding: European Research Council under the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 609920 Intense ultrashort THz and optical pulses with single-cycle pulse duration became possible after the recent advances in ultrafast technologies. Using such ultrashort pulses for electron acceleration offers advantages in terms of higher thresholds for material breakdown which opens up a promising path towards increased acceleration gradients. In addition, using optically generated THz pulses enable inherently synchronized acceleration schemes, since accelerating field and particle injecting field are excited by a single seed laser. In this contribution, we present the first experimental demonstration of laser-driven THz acceleration of electrons initially at rest. It is shown that strong-field, single-cycle THz fields accelerate electrons with peak energies of up to 0.8 keV in an ultracompact THz gun with bunch charge of 40 fC. The achieved energy spreads are as low as 5.8%. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-MOPIK004 | |
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| MOPIK007 | THz Driven Electron Acceleration with a Multilayer Structure | 512 |
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| We present first results in THz-based electron acceleration using a novel multilayer structure which we dub a Butterfly LINAC. THz-based accelerators are mm-scale devices that bridge the gap between micron-scale, ultra-compact devices such as laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) and dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) and meter-scale conventional accelerators. These intermediate-scale devices are promising because they combine many of the benefits of LPAs and DLAs, such as intrinsic synchronization and high acceleration gradients with the benefits of conventional accelerators such as high charge capacity, tunability as well as the robustness, stability and simple fabrication of static, macroscopic acceleration structures. The Butterfly LINAC allows optimization of electron acceleration using transversely-coupled single-cycle THz pulses by phase-matching electrons with the driving field. Proof-of-concept experiments will be described demonstrating 10 keV energy gain of a 55 keV source, in good agreement with simulation. Scalability of this device to the MeV level and applicability towards free electron lasers and ultrafast electron diffractometers will also be discussed. | ||
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| TUPAB038 | Electron Acceleration With a Ultrafast Gun Driven by Single-Cycle Terahertz Pulses | 1406 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 609920. We present results on an improved THz-driven electron gun using transversely-incident single-cycle THz pulses using a horn-coupler. Intrinsic synchronization between the electrons and the driving field was achieved by using a single laser system to create electrons by UV photoemission and to create THz radiation by difference frequency generation in a tilted-pulse front geometry. Details of the optical setups for the UV and THz pulses will be described as well as preliminary results showing evidence of electron acceleration. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-TUPAB038 | |
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