SIMULATION OF MICROWAVE GUN INJECTOR RF LINAC DRIVING INFRARED FREE ELECTRON LASERS

摘要

In contrast with the conventional injector consisting of dc gun, chopper, subharmonicbuncher and/or fundamental buncher, a microwave gun can cooperate with an alpha magnet as amore compact high brightness injector for the dedicated rf linear accelerators driving infrared freeelectron lasers (FELs). Such a concept has been put into practice in the MARK III FEL and willbe used in the Beijing Free Electron Laser (BFEL) as well. In this paper, the phase spread, energyspread, energy spread, emittance growth and intensity variation of a single electron microbunchin such an FEL accelerator system are investigated using SUPERFISH and PARMELA.