Author: Hemsing, E.
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FRIOA01
Demonstration of a cascaded IFEL  
 
  • E. Hemsing
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  I will present on an experimental demonstration of a two-stage cascaded optical inverse free-electron laser (IFEL) accelerator in which an electron beam was accelerated by a strong laser pulse after being packed into optical microbunches by a weaker initial laser pulse. It was shown experimentally that injection of precisely prepared optical microbunches into an IFEL allows net acceleration or deceleration of the beam, depending on the relative phase of the two laser pulses. Results indicate that with proper phase stability, high efficiency compact IFELs may be obtainable with conventional laser sources.
PRL 110, 244801 (2013)
 
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