Simulation studies on two-frequency RF gun

Photocathode RF gun is widely used for particle accelerators as an electron source.When driving an RF electron gun at the fundamental frequency and a higher harmonic frequency simultaneously with proper field ratio and relative phase,it generates electron beams of ultralow emittance and a linear longitudinal phase space distribution.Such a gun provides high quality electron beam with low energy spread,small traverse emittance and high brightness.In this paper,the RF design of a 1.5 cell cavity is presented.Simulation results of beam dynamics for the two-frequency gun and a standard single-frequency RF gun are also shown in this paper.In addition,bunch compression with a two-frequency gun is explored.

On the theory of photocathode rf guns

In this paper we give a set of analytical formulae to describe the characteristics of photocathode rf guns at any rf frequencies, such as energy, energy spread, bunch length, out going current, and emittance etc. as functions of the laser injection phase, which are useful in the design and practical operation of rf guns.

Physical design of FEL injector based on the performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun

To meet the requirements of high performance THz-FEL （Free Electron Laser）, a compact scheme of FEL injector was proposed. A thermionic cathode was chosen to emit electrons instead of a photo-cathode with its complex structure and high cost. The effective bunch charge was improved to ~200 pC by adopting an enhanced EC-ITC （External Cathode Independently Tunable Cells） RF gun to extract micro-bunches; back bombardment effects were almost eliminated as well. Constant gradient accelerator structures were designed to improve energy to ~14 MeV, while the focusing system was applied for emittance suppressing and bunch state maintenance. The physical design and beam dynamics of the key components for the FEL injector were analyzed. Furthermore, start- to-end simulations with multi-pulses were performed using homemade MATLAB and Parmela. The results show that continual high brightness electron bunches with a low energy spread and emittance could be obtained stably.

Beam tail efect of a performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun

The beam tail effect of multi-bunches will influence the electron beam performance in a high intensity thermionic RF gun. Beam dynamic calculations that illustrate the working states of single beam tail and multi-pulse feed-in of a performance-enhanced EC-ITC （external cathode independent tunable cavity） RF gun for an FEL （free electron laser） injector are performed to estimate the extracted bunch properties. By using both Parmela and homemade MATLAB codes, the effects of a single beam tail as well as interactions of multi-pulses are analyzed, where a ring-based electron algorithm is adopted to calculated RF fields and the space-charge field. Furthermore, the procedure of unexpected deviated-energy particles mixed with an effective bunch head is described by the MATLAB code as well. As a result, the performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun is proved to have the capability to extract continual stable bunches suitable for a high requirement THz-FEL.

BXERL photo-injector based on a 217 MHz normal conducting RF gun

The Beijing X-ray Energy Recovery Linac （BXERL） test facility is proposed in Institute of High Physics （IHEP）. In this proposal, the main linac requires the injector to provide an electron beam with 5 MeV energy and 10 mA average current. An injector based on DC gun technology is the first candidate electron source for BXERL. However, the field emission in the DC gun cavity makes it much more difficult to increase the high voltage to more than 500 kV. Another technology based on a 217 MHz normal conducting RF gun is proposed as the backup injector for this test facility. We have designed this RF gun with 2D SUPERFISH code and 3D MICROWAVE STUDIO code. In this paper, we present the optimized design of the gun cavity, the gun RF parameters and the set-up of the whole injector system. The detailed beam dynamics have been done and the simulation results show that the injector can generate electron bunches with RMS normalized emittance 1.0 7πmm-mrad, bunch length 0.77 mm, beam energy 5.0 MeV and energy spread 0.60%.

RF gun for an intense THz radiation source

A new facility is under construction at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, to generate femto-second electron bunches and intense coherent THz radiation pulses. A thermionic RF-gun is used to be the electron source of the linac, which is 1.6 cell, π/2, side coupled in design. In the following of this paper, the design, manufacture and beam operation of this gun are presented.

Emittance measurement & optimization for the photocathode RF gun with laser profile shaping

The Laser Undulator Compact X-ray source （LUCX） is a test bench for a compact high brightness X-ray generator, based on inverse Compton Scattering at KEK, which requires high intensity multi-bunch trains with low transverse emittance. A photocathode RF gun with emittance compensation solenoid is used as an electron source. Much endeavor has been made to increase the beam intensity in the multi-bunch trains. The cavity of the RF gun is tuned into an unbalanced field in order to reduce space charge effects, so that the field gradient on the cathode surface is relatively higher when the forward RF power into gun cavity is not high enough. A laser profile shaper is employed to convert the driving laser profile from Gaussian into uniform. In this research we seek to find the optimized operational conditions for the decrease of the transverse emittance. With the uniform driving laser and the unbalanced RF gun, the RMS transverse emittance of a 1 nC bunch has been improved effectively from 5.46 πmm·mrad to 3.66 πmm·mrad.

Compact narrow-band THz radiation source based on photocathode rf gun

Narrow-band THz coherent Cherenkov radiation can be driven by a subpicosecond electron bunch trav- eling along the axis of a hollow cylindrical dielectric-lined waveguide. We present a scheme of compact THz radiation source based on the photocathode rf gun. On the basis of our analytic result, the subpicosecond electron bunch with high charge （800 pC） can be generated directly in the photocathode rf gun. According to the analytical and simulated results, a narrow emission spectrum peaked at 0.24 THz with 2 megawatt （MW） peak power is expected to gain in the proposed scheme （the length of the facility is about 1.2 m）.

Generation and measurement of sub-picosecond electron bunch in photocathode rf gun

We consider a scheme to generate a sub-picosecond electron bunch in the photocathode rf gun by im-proving the acceleration gradient in the gun, suitably tuning the bunch charge, the laser spot size and the acceleration phase, and reducing the growth of transverse emittance by laser shaping. A nondestructive technique is also reported to measure the electron bunch length, by measuring the high-frequency spectrum of wakefield radiation which is caused by the passage of a relativistic electron bunch through a channel surrounded by a dielectric.

Study on the W-band photocathode RF gun

In this paper, we continue our W-band photoinjector work. We discuss the production of a high brightness femtosecond bunch using our proposed W-band photoinjector under different parameters. The parameters of the produced bunch are the energy of 1.2 MeV, the length of 60 fs, the peak current of 90 A, the normalized emittance of 0.4 mm mrad and the energy spread of 1.9%. Finally, we present some application examples of the proposed photoinjector.

Ultra-low emittance X-band photocathode RF gun

In this paper, we present the simulation results of a 1.6 cell X-band photocathode RF gun for ultra-low emittance electron beams. It will work at 9.3 GHz. The emittance, bunch length, electron energy and energy spread at the gun exit are optimized at bunch charge of 1pC using PARMELA. Electron bunches with emittance about 0.1 mm·mrad and bunch length less than 100 fs can be obtained from this gun. A PITZ type coupler is adopted in this gun and an initial simulation by MAFIA is also given in this paper.

Compact THz radiation source based on photocathode RF gun

Terahertz (THz) science and technology have already become the research highlight at present. In this paper, we put forward a proposal to generate THz radiation at tens of MW peak power. As a result of the ultrafast laser and the high accelerating field of photocathode RF gun, we can generate and accelerate an electron beam to several MeV, of which the bunch length is less than sub-ps. When the short electron bunches are injected into the wiggler, THz radiation based on Coherent Synchrotron Radiation could be achieved with tens of MW peak power. The whole THz FEL facility can be scaled to the size of a tabletop.

Emittance Growth Due to the Nonlinear RF Field Near the Cathode of RF Electron Gun

RF effect and space charge effect are the main sources of the emittance growth in the RF elec-tron gun.The single particle dynamics near the cathode is discussed,and the emittance growth due to RFnonlinear force and time-dependent force are studied in detail.Comparison with the emittance at the gunexit shows that the emittanca growth due to nonlinear RF effect near the cathode can not be neglected.

C波段光阴极电子枪驱动激光整形研究

在光阴极电子枪系统当中,驱动激光的时空整形是实现束流低发射度的关键之一。基于南方光源预研项目C波段光阴极电子枪测试平台,介绍了驱动激光系统的布局与测试相关内容。测试平台于国内首次采用初始RMS脉冲长度为160 fs的266 nm激光作为驱动激光,利用双折射晶体的脉冲时间延迟完成对激光脉冲纵向时间整形,并配备多个孔径的可调光阑实现对束流的横向尺寸的调节。经过整形,激光平台可以提供纵向RMS长度为160 fs、420 fs的高斯脉冲激光与半高全宽为5 ps的平顶分布脉冲激光,根据激光测试结果,简要分析了不同脉冲分布对于束流发射度演化以及脉冲分布的影响,不仅为后续光阴极电子枪束流调试提供了指导,并对初始脉冲分布对空间电荷力的影响实现更加深入的研究提供了支持。

低反轰多腔热阴极微波电子枪物理设计

为了开展基于自由电子激光的紧凑型太赫兹源技术研究,获得高品质(强流、低能散、低发射度)电子束,提出了一个低反轰双路微波馈入多腔热阴极微波电子枪的设计方案。用两路独立微波馈入激励微波电子枪,一路由首腔馈入激励首腔和实现阴极表面建场引出电子,另一路由后续腔馈入并通过腔间耦合激励各腔。两路微波互不耦合,通过移相器实现首腔和第2腔之间的相移连续可调。理论模拟结果表明:在一个射频周期内,热阴极微波电子枪的电子反轰功率约8 kW,平均反轰功率仅为1.2 W(重复频率25 Hz和脉宽6μs)。

低反轰热阴极微波电子枪初步实验

简述了紧凑型自由电子激光太赫兹源研制的系统设计方案,介绍了具有两路微波馈入的热阴极微波电子枪的研制与测试情况,利用束流传感器测试了束流强度,并利用CCD相机测试了束斑大小,给出了微波电子枪通过初步热测实验得到的结果。测得微波电子枪出口处束流强度超过500mA,束斑约3mm,采用双屏法测量束流发射度,得到归一化发射度约为13.5π.mm.mrad,测试指标与理论设计值吻合较好。

S波段1＋腔热阴极微波电子枪研究

叙述了１＋腔热阴极微波电子枪设计、制造与调试的情况。该枪已于１９９２年１２月调试出束，经过一年多的调试运行，测量了电子束的发射度和能谱，得到了满意的结果。当输入功率约１．１ＭＷ时，输出电子束最大能量１ＭｅＶ，平均电子能量０．６ＭｅＶ，宏脉冲电流１Ａ，宏脉冲宽度约２μａ，重复频率５０Ｈｚ，微波工作频率２９９７．７５ＭＨｚ，束流归一化发射度ε_ｎ≈５πｍｍ·ｍｒａｄ。

紧凑型自聚束微波电子枪设计研究(英文)

提出一种新的紧凑型强流电子枪结构。紧凑型自聚束微波电子枪是一个多驻波腔结构,最大特点是腔与腔之间相互没有耦合,每腔可分别独立馈入功率和调节相位。通过选择合适的馈入功率和高频相位搭配,能够得到较优的束流品质。在此基础上采用外注入电子束的结构,能进一步增大流强和降低能散度,同时消除电子反轰对阴极工作的不利影响。利用Su-perfish和Parmela程序对腔体结构和束流动力学反复进行计算,确定了一组结构和工作参数。模拟结果表明出束微脉冲峰值流强可以到18 A,能散度小于2‰,横向发射度小于6πmm.mrad。最后给出腔体冷侧结果,与模拟计算结果吻合得较好。

汤姆逊硬X射线源中锁模脉冲激光稳频方法

汤姆逊硬X射线源中,光阴极微波电子枪要求触发激光脉冲与腔中微波场相位的精确时间同步。理论分析了锁模脉冲激光器相位噪声,探讨了对激光脉冲相位探测和控制的方法,并通过实验构建了激光相位抖动测量系统和锁相环稳频回路,用基频鉴相信号驱动压电陶瓷晶体改变谐振腔长,实现了从开环3.42ps到闭环1.46 ps的均方根相位抖动的测量和控制。

强流低发射度光阴极微波电子枪的优化设计

为了实现高增益 FEL,对其关键部件光阴极微波电子枪进行了优化设计 ,还就发射度补偿技术进行了较详细的考虑 ,并用 PARMELA程序进行了粒子动力学的模拟 ,初步给出了为降低初始电子束团横向发射度的优化参数。