Narrow high-power microwave pulses from a free-electron laser

Thomas C. Marshall; Ting-Bin Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.218557

8 September 1995 Narrow high-power microwave pulses from a free-electron laser

Thomas C. Marshall, Ting-Bin Zhang

Proceedings Volume 2557, Intense Microwave Pulses III; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.218557
Event: SPIE's 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We have explored high power microwave ((lambda) equals 1.5 mm) pulse amplification along a tapered undulator FEL using the 1D Compton FEL equations with slippage. For an appropriate taper, sideband instabilities are suppressed and a short (approximately 50 psec) Gaussian pulse will propagate in a nearly self-similar way as it grows in power, slipping through a much longer electron pulse (beam energy, 750kV; current, 100A; radius equals 2 mm; length equals 200 radiation periods). This is in contrast to the example of pulse propagation in a constant parameter undulator, where the Gaussian pulse breaks up into irregularities identified with sidebanding. Variation of initial pulse width shows convergence to a 50 psec wide output pulse. Because of the slippage of the radiation pulse through the electron pulse, the peak microwave pulse intensity, approximately 3GW/cm², is about three times the kinetic energy density of the electron beam.

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Thomas C. Marshall and Ting-Bin Zhang "Narrow high-power microwave pulses from a free-electron laser", Proc. SPIE 2557, Intense Microwave Pulses III, (8 September 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.218557

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