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Free electron laser

Authors: T. Kwan; J. M. Dawson; A. T. Lin;

Free electron laser

Abstract

The possibility of a new type of laser has been investigated by computer simulation using a fully relativistic electromagnetic particle code which has one spatial and three velocity dimensions. By passing a relativistic electron beam over a rippled static magnetic field, high frequency electromagnetic radiation is generated. If the ripple wavelength is λ0, the lasing wavelength is roughly λ0/2γ2. Thus, such a laser is continuously tunable by varying γ. It has been observed in simulation that as much as 35% of the beam energy can be converted into radiation, of which as much as nearly 90% can be in the most rapidly growing mode. A theory of the coupling between the negative energy plasma wave and the electromagnetic radiation by means of the rippled magnetic field is presented. Good agreements have been obtained between the simulation and the theory. The saturation mechanism is found to be the trapping of the beam by the unstable plasma wave. A theoretical estimate of the amount of energy that can be converted into radiation from the electron beam is also given.

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