dc.contributor.author | Nanni, Emilio Alessandro | |
dc.contributor.author | Hong, Kyung-Han | |
dc.contributor.author | Ravi, Koustuban | |
dc.contributor.author | Fallahi, Arya | |
dc.contributor.author | Moriena, Gustavo | |
dc.contributor.author | Dwayne Miller, R. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, Wenqian Ronny | |
dc.contributor.author | Kaertner, Franz X. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-27T22:58:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-27T22:58:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-10 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015-04 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100509 | |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.sponsorship | United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Contract N66001-11-1-4192) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant AFOSR-FA9550-12-1-0499) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Dept. of Energy (DE-FG02-10ER46745) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Dept. of Energy (DE-FG02-08ER41532) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council (Synergy Grant 609920) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (DMR1042342) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Center for Free-Electron Laser Science | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | German Science Foundation (Excellence Cluster “The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging- Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at the Atomic Scale”) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9486 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Nature Publishing Group | en_US |
dc.title | Terahertz-driven linear electron acceleration | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nanni, 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 Limited | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Nanni, Emilio Alessandro | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Huang, Wenqian Ronny | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Hong, Kyung-Han | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Ravi, Koustuban | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Kaertner, Franz X. | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Nature Communications | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Nanni, 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.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5041-5210 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5444-9220 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1678-7867 | |
dspace.mitauthor.error | true | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |