Author: Kawase, K.
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MOPOMS003 Single-Sided Pumped Compact Terahertz Driven Booster Accelerator 625
SUSPMF026   use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code  
 
  • T. Kroh, R. Bazrafshan, F.X. Kärtner, N.H. Matlis
    Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and Center for Free Electron Science (CFEL), Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Fakhari, M. Pergament, T. Rohwer, M. Vahdani, D. Zhang
    CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
  • F.X. Kärtner
    The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • K. Kawase
    JAEA, Kizugawa, Japan
 
  Funding: European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) through the Synergy Grant ’Frontiers in Attosecond X-ray Science: Imaging and Spectroscopy’ (609920).
Scaling the RF-accelerator concept to terahertz (THz) frequencies brings several compelling advantages, including compactness, intrinsic timing between the photoemission and driving field sources, and high field gradients associated with the short THz wavelength and high breakdown threshold. Recent demonstrations of such THz powered accelerators relied on two counter-propagating single-cycle THz pulses. However, to achieve high energy gains in the acceleration process high energy THz pulses are needed which in turn require complex optical setups. Here, we present on the development of a matchbox sized multi-layered accelerator designed to boost the 50 keV output of a DC electron gun to energies of ~400 keV that only requires a single THz pulse to be powered. An integrated tunable mirror inside the structure interferes the front of the driving THz pulse with its rear part such that the field in the interaction region is optimized for efficient acceleration. This reduces the complexity of the required optical setup. Such a compact booster accelerator is very promising as electron source in ultrafast electron diffraction experiments and as booster stage prior to THz based LINACs.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOMS003  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 20 June 2022  
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