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Phys Rev Lett
; 101(5): 054801, 2008 Aug 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18764397
RESUMO
We demonstrate that trains of subpicosecond electron microbunches, with subpicosecond spacing, can be produced by placing a mask in a region of the beam line where the beam transverse size is dominated by the correlated energy spread. We show that the number, length, and spacing of the microbunches can be controlled through the parameters of the beam and the mask. Such microbunch trains can be further compressed and accelerated and have applications to free electron lasers and plasma wakefield accelerators.