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Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 080701 (2008) [5 pages]

High-power beam-based coherently enhanced THz radiation source

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Yuelin Li (李跃林)1, Yin-E Sun (孙银娥)1,2, and Kwang-Je Kim1
1Accelerator Systems Division and Argonne Accelerator Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA

Received 10 March 2008; published 28 August 2008

We propose a compact Smith-Purcell radiation device that can potentially generate high average power THz radiation with high conversion efficiency. The source is based on a train of short electron bunches from an rf photoemission gun at an energy of a few MeV. Particle tracking simulation and analysis show that, with a beam current of 1 mA, it is feasible to generate hundreds of watts of narrow-band THz radiation at a repetition rate of 1 MHz.

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© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.080701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.080701
PACS:
07.57.Hm, 41.60.Cr, 29.27.Fh