Author: Matlis, N.H.
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WEPAB158 Compact Terahertz-Powered Electron Photo-Gun 2983
 
  • T. Kroh, H. Çankaya, U. Demirbas, M. Fakhari, N.H. Matlis, M. Pergament, T. Rohwer
    CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
  • R.W. Aßmann, H. Dinter, M.J. Kellermeier
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Hemmer, F.X. Kärtner
    Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and Center for Free Electron Science (CFEL), Hamburg, Germany
  • F.X. Kärtner
    The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - EXC 2056 - project ID 390715994.
Novel accelerator concepts such as all-optical THz based compact accelerators promise to enable new science due to unique features such as reduced timing-jitter and improved space-charge broadening of the generated electron bunches. However, multi-keV electron photo-guns based on short single-cycle THz pulses for acceleration have not been demonstrated experimentally so far. Here, we present a modular THz-driven electron gun with both tunable interaction length and output orifice allowing optimization of the sub-mm interaction volume. First extraction of multi-keV electrons is demonstrated and the parameter space as well as resulting performance of the THz-driven gun by varying the timing of the two single-cycle THz pulses and the UV photo-excitation pulse are explored. Such compact gun prototypes are not only promising as injectors for compact THz-based LINACs but also as source for ultrafast electron diffraction experiments.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB158  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 09 June 2021       issue date ※ 30 August 2021  
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