High average current electron guns for high-power free electron lasers

High average power free-electron lasers (FELs) require high average current electron injectors capable of generating high quality, short duration electron bunches with a repetition rate equal to the frequency of the rf linac. In this paper we propose, analyze, and simulate an rf-gated, gridded therm...

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Main Authors: Phillip Sprangle, Joseph Peñano, Bahman Hafizi, Daniel Gordon, Steven Gold, Antonio Ting, Chad Mitchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2011-02-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.14.020702