Phase Space Manipulation with Laser-Generated Terahertz Pulses

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Record Id	64547
Title	Phase Space Manipulation with Laser-Generated Terahertz Pulses
Contributors	S P Jamison (STFC Daresbury Lab.) (Pr.Au.), T Thakker (STFC Daresbury Lab.), B Muratori (STFC Daresbury Lab.), Y M Saveliev (STFC Daresbury Lab.), R J Smith (STFC Daresbury Lab.), M Cliffe (PSI, Manchester U.), WR Flavell (PSI, Manchester U.), DM Graham (PSI, Manchester U.), D J Holder (Liverpool U.), D Newton (Liverpool U.), A Wolski (Liverpool U.)
Abstract	Ultrafast lasers are able to generate THz pulses with >1MV/m field strengths, and with controllable electric field temporal profiles. We report progress on an experiment to demonstrate the use of laser generated THz pulses to manipulate the gamma-z correlation of a ~20MeV electron bunch on a sub picosecond time scale. The manipulation is achieved in free space, without external magnetic fields or undulators, by the interaction of the bunch with the longitudinal electric field of a co-propagating THz pulse in a TEM*10-like mode. We discuss the potential for arbitrary phase space control, including the possibility of correcting temporal jitter and driving electron beams into synchronisation with the laser.
Organisation	ASTeC , ASTeC-AP , ASTeC-RFD , CI , STFC
Keywords	Physics , energy modulation , terahertz , phase space
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Paper In Conference Proceedings	In 34th International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL2012), Nara, Japan, CI Preprints, 2012-00 (2012).		Jamison FEL 2012.PDF	2012