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Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 020702 (2009) [11 pages]

Laser pulse shaping for generating uniform three-dimensional ellipsoidal electron beams

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Yuelin Li (李跃林)1, Sergey Chemerisov2, and John Lewellen3
1Accelerator Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2Chemical Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
3Argonne ONR Project Office, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

Received 8 September 2008; published 27 February 2009

A scheme of generating a uniform ellipsoidal laser pulse for high-brightness photoinjectors is discussed. The scheme is based on the chromatic aberration of a dispersive lens. Fourier optics simulation reveals the interplay of group velocity delay and dispersion in the scheme, as well as diffractions. Particle tracking simulation shows that the beam generated by such a laser pulse approaches the performance of that by an ideal ellipsoidal laser pulse and represents a significant improvement from the traditionally proposed cylindrical beam geometry. The scheme is tested in an 800-nm, optical proof-of-principle experiment at lower peak power with excellent agreement between the measurement and simulation.

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© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.020702
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.020702
PACS:
29.27.Bd, 29.27.Eg, 41.75.Ht, 41.85.Ct