Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 070703 (2009) [7 pages]

Electron beam requirements for Smith-Purcell backward wave oscillator with external focusing

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Vinit Kumar1 and Kwang-Je Kim2
1Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, MP 452013, India
2Argonne Accelerator Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

Received 20 January 2009; published 24 July 2009

Operation of the Smith-Purcell backward wave oscillator requires a flat electron beam. Without the electron beam focusing, the requirement leads to a very stringent criterion on vertical emittance. In this paper, we discuss a way to relax the criterion by introducing an external focusing.


©2009 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.070703
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.070703
PACS: 52.59.−f, 41.60.Cr, 41.20.−q, 41.85.Ew

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