Parallel-Plate Waveguides for Terahertz-Driven MeV Electron Bunch Compression
Abstract
We demonstrate the electromagnetic performance of waveguides for femtosecond electron beam bunch manipulation and compression with strong-field terahertz (THz) pulses. The compressor structure is a dispersion-free exponentially-tapered parallel-plate waveguide (PPWG) that can focus single-cycle THz pulses along one dimension. We show test results of the tapered PPWG structure using electro-optic sampling (EOS) at the interaction region with peak fields of at least 300 kV/cm given 0.9 uJ of incoming THz energy. We also present a modified shorted design of the tapered PPWG for better beam manipulation and reduced magnetic field as an alternative to a dual-feed approach. As an example, we demonstrate that with 5 uJ of THz energy, the PPWG compresses a 2.5 MeV electron bunch by a compression factor of more than 4 achieving a bunch length of about 18 fs.
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@article{arxiv.1905.02831,
title = {Parallel-Plate Waveguides for Terahertz-Driven MeV Electron Bunch Compression},
author = {Mohamed A. K. Othman and Matthias C. Hoffmann and Michael K. Kozina and X. J. Wang and Renkai K. Li and Emilio A. Nanni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02831},
year = {2019}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures