Design of an electron gun for terahertz radiation source

An EC-ITC(External-Cathode Independently Tunable Cells) RF gun was employed with the aim of obtaining short-pulse bunches with high peak current for a terahertz radiation source. A gridded DC gun plays a key role as the external injecting electron source of the ITC RF gun, the performance of which determines the beam quality in the injector and transport line. In order to make the beam well compressed in the ITC RF gun, the energy of the electrons acquired from the gridded DC gun should be 15 keV at most. A proper structure of the gridded gun with double-anode is shown to overcome the strong space- charge force on the cathode, which is able to generate 6 μs beam with 4.5 A current successfully.     

基于单个四条带BPM的非拦截式能散度测量方法

能散度是反映束流品质的重要参数,采用传统测量方法测量时打到靶上的束流不能得到利用,测得的数据也是多个宏脉冲的平均值,利用该方法的测量结果进行束流调节时,要等待荧光靶从束流轨道中反复插入和提出,调节时间很长。基于单个四条带束流位置检测器,结合发射度测量的方法,实现了非拦截式能散度测量方法。该方法能在不加入额外设备的情况下对每个束流宏脉冲的能散度进行测量,测量结果与传统的拦截式测量方法结果相吻合。进行了误差分析,指出为了减小测量系统误差,需要尽可能使束流通过束流位置检测器中心。     

紧凑型自由电子激光THz源上四极磁铁的设计及测量

基于自由电子激光（FEL）的太赫兹源具有高功率、高效率、波谱范围宽且连续可调、波束质量好等显著优点,目前是获得最高输出功率的方法。紧凑型太赫兹源使整体装置小型化,减少了装置成本和占用空间,但依然可以提供高功率、高品质的太赫兹波束,是一种便利可靠的用户装置。由于空间限制,FEL上的磁铁要尽可能地减小其尺寸,并仍能满足束流参数设计要求。本文设计的四极磁铁磁轭孔径与有效长度,其中2块是64 mm100 mm,另外3块是45 mm100 mm。这些四极磁铁的磁场梯度可以达到0.6~1.9 Tm-1。采用Poisson和Oprra-3D软件进行四极磁铁的二维和三维仿真计算,设计优化四极磁铁的结构,并测量了加工完成后的四极磁铁的磁场。     

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 effect 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.     

Beam dynamics simulations of the injector for a compact THz source

Terahertz radiation has broad application prospects due to its ability to penetrate deep into many organic materials without the damage caused by ionizing radiations. A free electron laser (FEL)-based THz source is the best choice to produce high-power radiation. In this paper, a 14 MeV injector is introduced for generating high-quality beam for FEL, is composed of an EC-ITC RF gun, compensating coils and a travelling-wave structure. Beam dynamics simulations have been done with ASTRA code to verify the design and to optimize parameters. Simulations of the operating mode at 6 MeV have also been executed.     

A Novel Method for Rigorously Analyzing Beam Loading Effect Based on the Macro-Particle Model

The beam loading effect is a considerable issue for a high average current beam. We apply a novel method without utilizing the specious beam current value to rigorously analyze the beam loading effect in S-band linacs. By tracking every macro-particle＇s state and using the energy conservation law, power dissipated from the beam is calculated in each cell. In the new particle-based algorithm, the concept of equivalent beam current is proposed. Its value is not constant and it has a small variation through the accelerating structure. Also, we introduce the iteration algorithm as comparison and we find that the two algorithms coincide with each other very well.     

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.