Development of RF-Undulators and Powering Sources for Compact Efficient Compton FEL-Scattrons

Conception of Compton-type FELs operating up to Xray band is under development currently at IAP RAS. This concept is aimed at reducing energy of a driving relativistic electron beam and thereby increasing efficiency of the electron-wave interaction in FEL, as well as achieving relative compactness of the generator. The basis of this concept is RF-undulators of a new type the so-called 'flying' undulators. Results of current research of these RF-undulators, their simulations and 'cold' tests in the Ka-band are presented. For powering RF-undulators spatially-extended narrow-band Cerenkov masers are developed in the specified frequency range. In order to achieve the required sub-gigawatt power level of the pumping wave in a strongly oversized oscillator, we exploit the original idea of using two-dimensional distributed feedback implemented in the 2D doubly-periodical slow-wave structures. The design parameters of Ka-band surface-wave oscillator intended for powering RFundulators, results of its simulation and initial experimental studies are discussed.