Design and characterization of the DC acceleration and transport system required for the IMW Free Electron Master experiment

摘要

A Free Electron Maser (FEM) has been constructed and is soon to be tested at the FOM Institute (Rijnhuizen) Netherlands with the ultimate goal of producing 1 MW long pulse to CW microwave output in the range 130 GHz to 250 GHz. The DC acceleration and beam transport systems is eventually to be used in a depressed collector configuration requiring 99.8% beam transmission in order that the High Voltage 2MV supply be required only to supply 20 milliamps of body current. A relativistic version of the Herrmann optical theory originally developed for microwave tube beams is used to take in account thermal electrons far out on the gaussian distribution tail which can translate into beam current well outside the ideal beam edge. This theory is applied to the FOM beamline design and predicts that the beam envelope containing 99.8% of the current can be successfully transported to the undulator for a wide range of assume d emittance values.