High-brightness electron guns for linac-based light sources

Author(s):  
John W. Lewellen IV
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Winick

Many of the more than 40 operational light sources around the world have achieved performance levels that exceed initial design goals. These accomplishments are reviewed, along with concepts and proposals for sources with performance levels exceeding those of present sources. These include storage rings with lower electron-beam emittance than present third-generation rings and free-electron lasers (FELs). It now appears that the highest performance sources will be based on linacs rather than storage rings. This is because emittance originates differently and scales differently with electron energy for rings and linacs, so that the lowest electron-beam emittance can be achieved in high-energy linacs equipped with high-brightness electron sources. Such electron beams can be used to provide X-ray beams with very high brightness and coherence in sub-picosecond pulses in a single pass through a small-gap short-period undulator by spontaneous emission, and with even higher beam brightness and coherence by stimulated coherent emission in an FEL. Designs for such FEL sources, and associated research and development, are underway at several laboratories.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Stepanov ◽  
C. P. Hauri

High-brightness X-ray radiation produced by third-generation synchrotron light sources (TGLS) has been used for numerous time-resolved investigations in many different scientific fields. The typical time duration of X-ray pulses delivered by these large-scale machines is about 50–100 ps. A growing number of time-resolved studies would benefit from X-ray pulses with two or three orders of magnitude shorter duration. Here, techniques explored in the past for shorter X-ray pulse emission at TGLS are reviewed and the perspective towards the realisation of picosecond and sub-picosecond X-ray pulses are discussed.


Author(s):  
Christoph G. A. Hoelen ◽  
Dany A. Benoy ◽  
Hugo J. Cornelissen ◽  
Alexander V. Vdovin ◽  
Dominiue Bruls

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Choi ◽  
Sergey V. Zakharov ◽  
Raul Aliaga-Rossel ◽  
Aldrice Bakouboula ◽  
Jeremy Bastide ◽  
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Author(s):  
Dong-Yo Jheng ◽  
Shih-Chang Wang ◽  
Tuan-Shu Ho ◽  
Teng-I Yang ◽  
Kuang-Yu Hsu ◽  
...  

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