Airy加速光束的局域空间频率及其在光束设计中的应用

Airy加速光束是近年来备受关注的一种新型无衍射光束. 它所具有的自由加速、无衍射及自恢复特性使其在光学微操纵、非线性光学、 电子加速等诸多领域显示出重要的应用价值. 因此, 如何方便高效地生成加速光束成为近年来的一个热点研究内容. 本文对Airy加速光束复振幅分布的空间振荡特性进行了分析, 建立了利用局域空间频率描述其加速特性的理论. 提出了利用零点坐标计算加速光束局域空间频率的方法, 通过非线性拟合给出了可以精确描述Airy光束局域空间频率的解析公式; 确定了加速光束的局域空间频率函数与加速轨迹之间的定量关系, 给出了由给定加速轨迹计算相应的局域空间频率以及加速光束的纯相位函数的一种简单计算方法. 将上述分析结果用于设计产生具有给定加速轨迹的加速光束所需的相位函数, 成功求出了能够产生圆弧形加速轨迹的新型加速光束的纯相位函数的解析表达式. 基于该相位函数设计的纯相位衍射光学元件的模拟衍射结果证明了上述方法的可行性. 关键词： 衍射光学 加速光束 局域空间频率     

Experimental demonstration of wakefield acceleration in a tunable dielectric loaded accelerating structure

We report on a collinear wakefield experiment using the first tunable dielectric loaded accelerating structure. By introducing an extra layer of nonlinear ferroelectric, which has a dielectric constant sensitive to temperature and dc bias, the frequency of a dielectric loaded accelerating structure can be tuned. During the experiment, the energy of a witness bunch at a fixed delay with respect to the drive beam was measured while the temperature of the structure was scanned over a 50?°C range. The energy change corresponded to a change of more than half of the nominal structure wavelength.     

强流离子注入机加速管的聚焦特性研究

 讨论了三间隙强流离子加速管的聚焦特性，计算了各种能量下离子束聚焦情况，并分析了抑制空间电荷效应所需要的电场强度。最后总结了三间隙加速管设计和调试应注意的问题。     

Use of multimode cavities with equidistant spectrum for increasing the energy accumulation rate of particles in linear supercolliders

We propose a new accelerating structure for teraelectronvolt linear electron–positron colliders [1–4]. The structure is based on acceleration of a sequence of particle bunches (accelerated beam) by means of a periodic system of quasioptical cavities. Each cavity is operated at several eigenmodes with equidistant frequencies which are excited by a drive beam bunched with the same spatial period as the accelerated beam. The accelerating field represents a time-periodic sequence of narrow peaks separated by wide intervals of a field close to zero. This makes it possible to significantly decrease the effective time of exposure of the structure surface by ultrahigh microwave fields compared with the single-frequency structure. To maximize filling of the structure by accelerating-field regions and minimize ohmic losses, we suggest using a set of modes with a nonzero number of longitudinal variations strictly proportional to the frequencies of these modes. Such modes are able to provide long effective interaction of the total microwave field with a bunch of particles passing across the cavity. In this way, the acceleration gradient averaged over the structure length can be increased. A variant of the accelerating structure which is based on two-mirror cavities with small curvature of the mirrors is proposed. Such cavities can provide approximate frequency equidistance of a large number of modes with nonzero longitudinal variations.     

Energy-gain measurements from a microwave inverse free-electron-laser accelerator

Experiments are reported on inverse free-electron-laser acceleration, including for the first time observations of the energy change as a function of relative injection phase of the electron bunches. The microwave accelerating structure consists of a uniform circular waveguide with a helical wiggler and an axial magnetic field. Acceleration of the entire beam by 6% is seen for 6 MeV electron bunches at optimum relative phase. Experimental results compare favorably, for accelerating phases, with predictions of a three-dimensional simulation that includes large-orbit effects.     

部分Bessel形电磁波

给出了满足Maxwell方程的自弯曲电磁波解(部分Bessel函数), 其可以通过发射调制初始相位和发射方向的一组平面波干涉合成来实现. 自弯曲电磁波在一定传播距离内保持波束形状不变, 其传播轨道接近圆形. 这类曲线加速的电磁波不同于Ariy波束, 其中部分Bessel波束的弯曲角度可以远大于Ariy波. 半Bessel 波束的Poynting矢量表明主瓣能够保持能量不扩散且偏转接近180°. 此外, 同时发射一对半Bessel电磁波能够在一定区域内实现对消, 即在该域内实现电磁波自屏蔽.     

Possibility of Yerevan synchrotron magnet structure transformation

We study a possibility of improving the YerPhI synchrotron by changing the magnet structure of accelerating ring so that the beam dynamics preserves its stability. The proposed changes in magnet structure allow one to get free intervals of sufficient length between the magnets which will be used for installing the system of multiturn injection and ejection of the beam as well as for installing a “cooling” system for the ion beam acceleration. Besides, additional focusing or defocusing magnets may be installed in the formed long free intervals for more effective control of the “working point” location, as well as the sextupole magnets may be installed for control of the chromaticity of the beam.     

Sending femtosecond pulses in circles: highly nonparaxial accelerating beams

We use caustic beam shaping on 100 fs pulses to experimentally generate nonparaxial accelerating beams along a 60° circular arc, moving laterally by 14 μm over a 28 μm propagation length. This is the highest degree of transverse acceleration reported to our knowledge. Using diffraction integral theory and numerical beam propagation simulations, we show that circular acceleration trajectories represent a unique class of nonparaxial diffraction-free beam profile which also preserves the femtosecond temporal structure in the vicinity of the caustic.     

Demonstration of a 17-GHz, high-gradient accelerator with a photonic-band-gap structure

We report the testing of a high gradient electron accelerator with a photonic-band-gap (PBG) structure. The photonic-band-gap structure confines a fundamental TM(01)-like accelerating mode, but does not support higher-order modes (HOM). The absence of HOM is a major advantage of the PBG accelerator, since it suppresses dangerous beam instabilities caused by wakefields. The PBG structure was designed as a triangular lattice of metal rods with a missing central rod forming a defect confining the TM(01)-like mode and allowing the electron beam to propagate along the axis. The design frequency of the six-cell structure was 17.14 GHz. The PBG structure was excited by 2 MW, 100 ns pulses. A 16.5 MeV electron beam was transmitted through the PBG accelerator. The observed electron beam energy gain of 1.4 MeV corresponds to an accelerating gradient of 35 MV/m, in excellent agreement with theory.     

Velocity bunching in travelling wave accelerator with low acceleration gradient

We present the analytical and simulated results of our study of the influence of the acceleration gradient in the velocity bunching process, which is a bunch compression scheme that uses a travelling wave accelerating structure as a compressor. Our study shows that the bunch compression application with low acceleration gradient is more tolerant to phase jitter and more successful in obtaining a compressed electron beam with symmetrical longitudinal distribution and low energy spread. We also present a transverse emittance compensation scheme to compensate the emittance growth caused by the increase of the space charge force in the compressing process, which is easy to adjust for different compression factors.     

Acceleration of electrons by a Bessel-Gaussian beam in vacuum

The acceleration of electrons by using a Bessel-Gaussian (BG) beam in vacuum is studied. It is shown that the axial electric field of a linearly or circularly polarized BG beam of order n = 1 can be used to accelerate electrons. The general features of the acceleration of electrons by using a linearly or circularly polarized BG beam, such as the transversal and axial electric-field components, phase velocity, slippage distance, accelerating potential, and energy gain etc., are analyzed.     

Simultaneous acceleration of multiply charged ions through a superconducting linac

The possibility of simultaneously accelerating particles with a range of charge-to-mass ratios ( approximately 20%) to the same energy is proposed and demonstrated for a superconducting linac. Uranium ions stripped in a foil with eight charge states have been accelerated through a portion of the ATLAS linac from 286 to 690 MeV, with 94% of the injected uranium in the accelerated beam. Emittance of the resultant beam has been measured and the energy spread was 1.3% compared to 0.4% for a single charge state. This development has immediate application to the high-intensity acceleration of heavy ions that are limited by ion-source intensities, such as the proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator Facility.     

二次电子对离子束流品质影响的动态研究

基于粒子云网格的计算方法,建立了具有外电路的加速系统模型,模拟了氘离子束轰击靶面产生二次电子的过程,动态地分析了二次电子的产生对离子加速电压的影响以及对氘离子束束流品质和氘离子束轰击靶面能量的影响。结果表明,当有0.06 A的二次电子电流产生时,离子加速电压将会下降45%,从而导致氘离子束束流品质下降,参与氘氚反应的氘离子数减少,相应的氘离子束轰击靶面的能量下降43.8%。     

The effect of accelerating cavity’s transients on the particle energy spread

An accelerating resonator loaded by current is analyzed based on an equation for normalized amplitude of the oscillations obtained by the method of counterpropagating waves. An expression for the accelerating voltage is derived with allowance for transients observed upon enabling the generator and beam. The effect of transients on the particle energy spread is taken into account. A possibility of stabilizing the beam energy at an arbitrary phase of the generator and without detuning the accelerating resonator in the process of transition to the steady state is demonstrated.     

强流电子束阻抗对相对论速调管放大器注入及群聚特性的影响分析

通过数值计算及粒子模拟程序, 分析了强流电子束阻抗、电压及电流特性对相对论速调管放大器(relativistic klystron amplifier, RKA)中束流调制、群聚特性的影响, 其中粒子模拟程序中采用 束发射方式以精确控制电子束的阻抗.结果表明, 低阻抗电子束有利于减小群聚距离, 缩短RKA器件的整体长度, 不利于注入微波对电子束的调制, 而高阻抗电子束情况正好相反.在电子束阻抗不变时, 增加电子束加速电压类似于增大电子束阻抗的情况.另外, 用粒子模拟方法确定了不同阻抗电子束对特定输入腔的电子负载电导, 从而可以得到不同阻抗的强流电子束对种子源 功率水平的需求以及对输入腔外观品质因数的要求. 关键词： 相对论速调管放大器 电子束阻抗 群聚距离 输入调制     

Two-color-laser-driven direct electron acceleration in infinite vacuum

We propose a direct electron acceleration scheme that uses a two-color pulsed radially polarized laser beam. The two-color scheme achieves electron acceleration exceeding 90% of the theoretical energy gain limit, over twice of what is possible with a one-color pulsed beam of equal total energy and pulse duration. The scheme succeeds by exploiting the Gouy phase shift to cause an acceleration-favoring interference of fields only as the electron enters its effectively final accelerating cycle. Optimization conditions and power scaling characteristics are discussed.     

HIRFL-SFC采用平顶波加速的模拟研究

近代物理研究所针对改善兰州重离子加速装置注入器(HIRFL-SFC)引出束流的品质,将主要考虑改进高频系统以提高Dee盒的加速电压、增加一个相位狭缝和采用平顶波加速等。其中采用平顶波加速可以有效地减小扇形聚焦回旋加速器(SFC)引出束流的能散并且提高其自身的传输效率。采用回旋加速器束流模拟程序AGORA对SFC进行模拟计算,并比较有无平顶波加速系统下束流品质的变化。结果表明,采用平顶波加速后,SFC的引出束流能散明显减小,而且在引出偏转板入口处束流的径向尺寸及圈间距满足单圈引出的条件。     

Acceleration and focusing of intense ion beams in rf undulator structures

Bunching, acceleration, and transverse focusing of intense ion beams in an undulator linac are considered. Such an accelerator features the absence of an rf field harmonic synchronous with the beam. A 3D equation of motion in the Hamiltonian form is derived in the smooth approximation, and the general conditions for ion beam acceleration and transverse focusing in the undulator linac are formulated. Basic analytical results are compared with the results of numerical simulation of the beam dynamics in the polyharmonic field of an accelerating cavity.     

Simulation of a Radio-Frequency Photogun for the Generation of Ultrashort Beams

A radio-frequency photogun for the generation of ultrashort electron beams to be used in fast electron diffractoscopy, wakefield acceleration experiments, and the design of accelerating structures of the millimeter range is modeled. The beam parameters at the photogun output needed for each type of experiment are determined. The general outline of the photogun is given, its electrodynamic parameters are calculated, and the accelerating field distribution is obtained. The particle dynamics is analyzed in the context of the required output beam parameters. The optimal initial beam characteristics and field amplitudes are chosen. A conclusion is made regarding the obtained beam parameters.     

Trapping, compression, and acceleration of an electron beam by the laser wake wave

The scheme of laser wake-field acceleration in plasma is proposed and considered for the case where a relatively rare nonrelativistic or weakly relativistic electron beam is initially situated ahead of the intense laser pulse. It is shown that an electron beam is trapped in the region of the first accelerating wake maximum; then it is strongly compressed and accelerated to ultrarelativistic energies.