Published March 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Chaotic electron trajectories in a free-electron laser with a linearly polarized wiggler

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Milieux Ionises, Ecole Polytechnique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex (France)

Description

The motion of an electron in a linearly polarized wiggler with an axial guide field is found to be nonintegrable. There is evidence for chaos from numerical calculations of Poincare maps and of nonzero Lyapunov exponents. Resonances can be predicted from a one-dimensional Hamiltonian perturbed by a small ''time-dependent'' quantity

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of Fluids B
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 965-971.
ISSN
0899-8221
CODEN
PFBPEI

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
24040583
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
CANONICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; HAMILTONIAN FUNCTION; RESONANCE; TRAJECTORIES; WIGGLER MAGNETS
Descriptors DEC
AMPLIFIERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUIPMENT; FERMIONS; FUNCTIONS; LASERS; LEPTONS; MAGNETS; TRANSFORMATIONS