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THP27 | Ultra Low Emittance Electron Gun Project for FEL Application | 657 |
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Most of the current 1Å Free-Electron Laser (FEL) projects are based on thermionic or photocathode guns aiming at an electron beam emittance of 0.5 to 1 mm·mrad. The design of a gun capable of producing a beam with an emittance one or two order of magnitude lower than the state of the art would reduce considerably the cost and size of such a FEL. Due to the recent advances in nanotechnologies and vacuum microelectronics, a field-emitter based gun is a promising alternative scheme. We present first measurements on commercial field emitter arrays as well as 3-D numerical simulations of the electron beam dynamics for typical bunch distributions generated from field emitters in realistic gun geometries. The design and some experimental results on a 500kV pulser is also presented. | ||
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