TDA3D: Updates and improvements to the widely used three-dimensional free electron laser simulation

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 393, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 277-279

  Faatz, B ^a   Fawley, W ^b   Pierini, P ^c   Reiche, S ^a,d   Travish, G ^d   Whittum, D ^e   Wurtele, J ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRON BEAMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

LORENTZ EQUATIONS OF MOTIONS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE TDA3D;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 0031186204     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)00492-0     Document Type: Article

References (9)

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3. E.T. Scharlemann, W.M. Fawley, Proc. SPIE 642 (1986) 2.
4. There were other FEL simulations that used a variety of approximations to the field equations (rather than directly solving the eikonal equations). However, they were not made widely available, nor were they developed with the same level of effort as FRED and FELIX.
5. M. Tran, J.S. Wurtele, Comput. Phys. Commun. 54 (1989) 263.
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8. TDA3D 0.3 benefited additionally from the efforts of M. Ben-Ari and S. Ishii.
9. TDA3D uses a space charge calculation scheme similar to that found in FRED, which is described in E.T. Scharlemann et al., Proc. 7th Int. Conf. 1985, Tahoe City, CA, USA.