Intense terahertz pulses from SLAC electron beams using coherent transition radiation

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Ziran ^a   Fisher, Alan S ^a   Goodfellow, John ^a,b   Fuchs, Matthias ^a   Daranciang, Dan ^c   Hogan, Mark ^a   Loos, Henrik ^a   Lindenberg, Aaron ^a,b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; COHERENT TRANSITION RADIATION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMTO-SECOND ELECTRON BUNCH; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; PEAK ELECTRIC FIELD;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAM BUNCHING;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT; LIGHT; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONS; LIGHT; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84874873895     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4790427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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