CHAOTIC ELECTRON TRAJECTORIES IN A HELICAL-WIGGLER FREE-ELECTRON LASER

Authors
BOURDIER A MICHELLOURS L
Citation
A. Bourdier et L. Michellours, CHAOTIC ELECTRON TRAJECTORIES IN A HELICAL-WIGGLER FREE-ELECTRON LASER, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 341(1-3), 1994, pp. 244-249
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
341
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
244 - 249
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)341:1-3<244:CETIAH>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
When taking into account the equilibrium self-fields of the beam, it h as been confirmed that the motion of an electron in a helical wiggler with guide field may be chaotic. There is evidence of chaos from numer ical calculations of non-zero Lyapunov exponents and Poincare maps.