M. Cohen et al., FREE-ELECTRON MASER EXPERIMENT WITH A PREBUNCHED BEAM, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 358(1-3), 1995, pp. 82-85
An experimental project aimed at demonstrating Free Electron Maser (FE
M) operation with prebunching is under way at Tel-Aviv university. The
FEM utilizes a 1.0 A prebunched electron beam obtained from a microwa
ve tube. The electron beam is bunched at 4.87 GHz and is subsequently
accelerated to 70 keV. The bunched beam is injected into a planar wigg
ler (B-w = 300 G, lambda(w) = 4.4 cm) constructed in a Halbach configu
ration with 17 periods, The wiggler utilizes a new scheme for horizont
al focusing based on the use of two long permanent magnets at the side
s of the wiggler. We plan to study FEM gain enhancement and radiation
features due to the prebunched (superradiant) mode of operation. In an
oscillator configuration the experiment should be enable study of see
d injection by prebunching. Simulation of FEL operation shows an expec
ted gain of approximately 100% and an rf output power of 5 kW. In this
paper we review the design of the main parts of the experimental set-
up, and present recent analytical, numerical, and experimental results
.