2016/06/06 by K. Bane, Sergey Antipov, Bane, K. L. F. +8
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Terahertz technology and applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.01870
openalex publication_date 2016/06/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A method for producing narrow-band THz radiation proposes passing an ultra-relativistic beam through a metallic pipe with small periodic corrugations. We present results of a measurement of such an arrangement at Brookhaven's Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). Our pipe was copper and was 5 cm long; the aperture was cylindrically symmetric, with a 1 mm (radius) bore and a corrugation depth (peak-to-peak) of 60 um. In the experiment we measured both the effect on the beam of the structure wakefield and the spectral properties of the radiation excited by the beam. We began by injecting a relatively long beam compared to the wavelength of the radiation to excite the structure, and then used a downstream spectrometer to infer the radiation wavelength. This was followed by injecting a shorter bunch, and then using an interferometer (also downstream of the corrugated pipe) to measure the spectrum of the induced THz radiation.