Photo-triggered pulsed cavity compressor for bright electron bunches in ultrafast electron diffraction

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 249-257

  Kassier, G H ^a,c,d   Erasmus, N ^a   Haupt, K ^a   Boshoff, I ^a   Siegmund, R ^a   Coelho, S M M ^b   Schwoerer, H ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM COLLIMATION; BEAM DIAMETERS; COULOMB REPULSIONS; ELECTRON BUNCH; ELECTRON PULSE; FREE PROPAGATION; MONOENERGETIC ELECTRON BEAMS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; RF STRUCTURE; SHORT-PULSED; TEMPORALLY RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; TRANSVERSE COHERENCE; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; UNIT CELLS; VOLTAGE GRADIENT;

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COMPRESSORS;

EID: 84869500541     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-012-5207-2     Document Type: Article

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