Linac based fs-THz program at PAL

Author

Park, Jaehun ; Kang, Heung-Sik ; Kim, Changbum ; Kim, Bongsoo ; Joo, Taiha

Author_Institution

Pohang Accel. Lab., Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Pohang

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

A 60 MeV electron linac for the source of coherent fs-THz pulses is under construction at PAL, Korea. The electron bunches produced from the photocathode rf gun are accelerated to 60 MeV and compressed down to several tens of femtosecond in a chicane type bunch compressor. Then the relativistic electron bunches are used to generate intense fs-THz pulses by coherent transition radiation (CTR). The radiated THz pulses are extracted from the linac vacuum pipe through a CVD diamond window. The 800 nm fs-laser pulses took up from the fs-regenerative amplifier are sent to the THz laboratory to do THz pump-Optical/IR probe experiment.

Keywords

electron accelerators; high-speed optical techniques; linear accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam dynamics; particle beam extraction; photocathodes; relativistic electron beams; submillimetre waves; synchrotron radiation; CTR; CVD diamond window; Korea; PAL; Pohang Accelerator Laboratory; THz pump-optical-IR probe experiment; beam dynamics; beam extraction; chicane type bunch compressor; coherent transition radiation; electron bunches; electron linac; electron volt energy 60 MeV; fs-THz pulse source; fs-regenerative amplifier; laser pulses; linac vacuum pipe; photocathode rf gun; relativistic electron bunches; synchrotron radiation; wavelength 800 nm; Acceleration; Cathodes; Chemical technology; Chemistry; Electron beams; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Pulse amplifiers; Structural beams; Synchrotron radiation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz 2008. 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2119-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2120-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2008.4665684

Filename

4665684