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- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Manchester, UK
- Develops a technique for creating shorter electron bunches for ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy
- Presents a scheme for generating single-cycle terahertz radiation with amplitude an order of magnitude higher than from existing sources
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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The author has developed new sources of terahertz radiation with attractive properties for accelerator-based applications. These include a radially biased large-area photoconductive antenna (PCA) that provided the largest longitudinally polarised terahertz electric field component ever measured from a PCA. This radially biased PCA was used in conjunction with an energy recovery linear accelerator for electron acceleration experiments at the Daresbury Laboratory. To achieve even higher longitudinally polarised terahertz electric field strengths, and to be able to temporally tune the terahertz radiation, the author investigated generation within non-linear optical crystals. He developed a novel generation scheme employing a matched pair of polarity inverted magnesium-oxide doped stoichiometric lithium niobate crystals, which made it possible to generate longitudinally polarised single-cycle terahertz radiation with an electric field amplitude an order of magnitude larger than existing sources.
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Book Title: Longitudinally Polarised Terahertz Radiation for Relativistic Particle Acceleration
Authors: Matthew. J Cliffe
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48643-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48642-0Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83983-7Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48643-7Published: 11 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Applied and Technical Physics