Compressing ultrafast electron pulse by radio frequency cavity

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/4/044102

Abstract An ultrafast electron diffraction technique with both high temporal and spatial resolution has been shown to be a powerful tool to observe the material transient structural change on an atomic scale. The space charge forces in a multi-electron bunch will greatly broaden the electron pulse width, and therefore limit the temporal resolution of the high brightness electron pulse. Here in this work, we design an ultrafast electron diffraction system, and utilize a radio frequency cavity to realize the ultrafast electron pulse compression. We experimentally demonstrate that the stretched electron pulse width of 14.98 ps with an electron energy of 40 keV and the electron number of 1.0×10⁵ can be maximally compressed to about 0.61 ps for single-pulse measurement and 2.48 ps for multi-pulse measurement by using a 3.2-GHz radiofrequency cavity. We also theoretically and experimentally analyze the parameters influencing the electron pulse compression efficiency for single- and multi-pulse measurements by considering radiofrequency field time jitter, electron pulse time jitter and their relative time jitter. We suggest that increasing the electron energy or shortening the distance between the compression cavity and the streak cavity can further improve the electron pulse compression efficiency. These experimental and theoretical results are very helpful for designing the ultrafast electron diffraction experiment equipment and compressing the ultrafast electron pulse width in a future study.

Keywords: ultrafast electron diffraction electron pulse compression radio frequency cavity

Received: 26 July 2016
Revised: 16 November 2016
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PACS:	41.75.Fr	(Electron and positron beams)
	29.27.-a	(Beams in particle accelerators)
	52.59.Sa	(Space-charge-dominated beams)
	61.05.J-	(Electron diffraction and scattering)

Fund: Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51132004 and 11474096), the Fund from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, China (Gant No. 14JC1401500), and the NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai, China.

Corresponding Authors: Shi-An Zhang, Zhen-Rong Sun
E-mail: sazhang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn;zrsun@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Min-Jie Pei(裴敏洁), Da-Long Qi(齐大龙), Ying-Peng Qi(齐迎朋), Tian-Qing Jia(贾天卿), Shi-An Zhang(张诗按), Zhen-Rong Sun(孙真荣) Compressing ultrafast electron pulse by radio frequency cavity 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 044102

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