We report on the experimental generation of a train of subpicosecond electron bunches. The bunch train generation is accomplished using a beamline capable of exchanging the coordinates between the horizontal and longitudinal degrees of freedom. An initial beam consisting of a set of horizontally-separated beamlets is converted into a train of bunches temporally separated with tunable bunch duration and separation. The experiment reported in this Letter unambiguously demonstrates the conversion process and its versatility.
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@article{arxiv.1011.1182,
title = {Tunable subpicosecond electron bunch train generation using a transverse-to-longitudinal phase space exchange technique},
author = {Y. -E Sun and P. Piot and A. Johnson and A. H. Lumpkin and T. J. Maxwell and J. Ruan and R. Thurman-Keup},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1182},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in PRL