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dc.contributor.authorNanni, Emilio Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorHong, Kyung-Han
dc.contributor.authorRavi, Koustuban
dc.contributor.authorFallahi, Arya
dc.contributor.authorMoriena, Gustavo
dc.contributor.authorDwayne Miller, R. J.
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Wenqian Ronny
dc.contributor.authorKaertner, Franz X.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-27T22:58:33Z
dc.date.available2015-12-27T22:58:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-10
dc.date.submitted2015-04
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100509
dc.description.abstractThe cost, size and availability of electron accelerators are dominated by the achievable accelerating gradient. Conventional high-brightness radio-frequency accelerating structures operate with 30–50 MeV m[superscript −1] gradients. Electron accelerators driven with optical or infrared sources have demonstrated accelerating gradients orders of magnitude above that achievable with conventional radio-frequency structures. However, laser-driven wakefield accelerators require intense femtosecond sources and direct laser-driven accelerators suffer from low bunch charge, sub-micron tolerances and sub-femtosecond timing requirements due to the short wavelength of operation. Here we demonstrate linear acceleration of electrons with keV energy gain using optically generated terahertz pulses. Terahertz-driven accelerating structures enable high-gradient electron/proton accelerators with simple accelerating structures, high repetition rates and significant charge per bunch. These ultra-compact terahertz accelerators with extremely short electron bunches hold great potential to have a transformative impact for free electron lasers, linear colliders, ultrafast electron diffraction, X-ray science and medical therapy with X-rays and electron beams.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Contract N66001-11-1-4192)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant AFOSR-FA9550-12-1-0499)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Dept. of Energy (DE-FG02-10ER46745)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Dept. of Energy (DE-FG02-08ER41532)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Research Council (Synergy Grant 609920)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation (U.S.) (DMR1042342)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCenter for Free-Electron Laser Scienceen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Science Foundation (Excellence Cluster “The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging- Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at the Atomic Scale”)en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherNature Publishing Groupen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9486en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attributionen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceNature Publishing Groupen_US
dc.titleTerahertz-driven linear electron accelerationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationNanni, Emilio A., Wenqian R. Huang, Kyung-Han Hong, Koustuban Ravi, Arya Fallahi, Gustavo Moriena, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Franz X. Kartner. “Terahertz-Driven Linear Electron Acceleration.” Nat Comms 6 (October 6, 2015): 8486. © 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limiteden_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronicsen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorNanni, Emilio Alessandroen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorHuang, Wenqian Ronnyen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorHong, Kyung-Hanen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorRavi, Koustubanen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorKaertner, Franz X.en_US
dc.relation.journalNature Communicationsen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsNanni, Emilio A.; Huang, Wenqian R.; Hong, Kyung-Han; Ravi, Koustuban; Fallahi, Arya; Moriena, Gustavo; Dwayne Miller, R. J.; Kartner, Franz X.en_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5041-5210
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5444-9220
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1678-7867
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