Abstract
A method is proposed to determine the temporal width of high-brightness radio-frequency compressed electron pulses based on cross-correlation technique involving electron bunches and laser-induced plasma. The temporal evolution of 2-dimensional transverse profile of ultrafast electron bunches repelled by the formed transient electric field of laser-induced plasma on a silver needle is investigated, and the pulse-width can be obtained by analyzing these time-dependent images. This approach can characterize radio-frequency compressed ultrafast electron bunches with picosecond or sub-picosecond timescale and up to 105 electron numbers.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 124209 |
| Journal | Chinese Physics B |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Electron pulse-width
- Laser-induced plasma
- Radio-frequency compression
- Ultrafast electron diffraction