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| THPO016 | Investigation of 2D PBG Waveguides for THz Driven Acceleration | 714 |
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Funding: Work supported by the STFC PhD Studentship Novel accelerating techniques that overcome the limitations of conventional RF technology are receiving significant interest. Moving from RF to the THz frequency range, higher gradient of acceleration of high energy beams can be achieved in miniaturised structures. Moreover, with respect to the optical frequency range, the THz regime allows for larger structures and better beam quality to be obtained. In this paper, we investigate the use of a 2D photonic bandgap (PBG) waveguide for THz driven electron acceleration. In accelerator applications, the properties of PBG waveguides can be exploited to damp higher order modes and offer low-loss dielectric confinement at high frequency. In particular, 2D PBG waveguides offer a good compromise between manufacturability, total photonic bandgap confinement, and ease of parallel illumination. The structure here proposed is optimised for maximum bandgap and single mode operation. Dispersion characteristics of the accelerating mode are studied to achieve the best compromise between high accelerating field and effective accelerating bandwidth, given a ~10% bandwidth of the THz driving pulse. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-THPO016 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 12 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 20 September 2018 issue date ※ 18 January 2019 | |
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