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LASER AND PARTICLE BEAMS
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 415-422Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034604040078
Keywords
coherent transition radiation; diffraction; electron beams; radiation temporal profile
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The electric field in the temporal and spectral domain of coherent diffraction-limited transition radiation is studied. An electron bunch, with arbitrary longitudinal momentum distribution, propagating at normal incidence to a sharp metal-vacuum boundary with finite transverse dimension is considered. A general expression for the spatiotemporal electric field of the transition radiation is derived, and closed-form solutions for several special cases are given. The influence of parameters such as radial boundary size, electron momentum distribution, and angle of observation on the waveform (e.g., radiation pulse length and amplitude) are discussed. For a Gaussian electron bunch, the coherent radiation waveform is shown to have a single-cycle profile. Application to a novel THz source based on a laser-driven accelerator is discussed.
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