Published September 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Analysis and calculation on electron bunch length measurement by using CTR

  • 1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). Inst. of High Energy Physics

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Measurement of electron bunch length through its generated CTR is a new frequency domain technique developed in the accelerator and FEL fields recently. In this paper authors analyze theoretically and calculate numerically CTR produced by a train of RF-linac electron bunches of a few picoseconds at BFEL. For the CTR emitted at wavelengths longer than the bunch length (λ≥√2πσz), the intensity is enhanced by a factor of 108 which is the number of electrons in the bunch; CTR energy is mainly concentrated near the beam axis and can be up to several millijoules for Gaussian and rectangular bunches. A polarized-type Michelson interferometer was designed to measure autocorrelation interferograph of CTR, from which one can diagnose longitudinal length of this bunches and derive its electron density distribution

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Journal Title
High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 831-835
ISSN
0254-3052