Terahertz source based on coherent Smith-Purcell radiation from femtosecond electron beam

The advances in electron accelerator science and technology continue to reach shorter bunch lengths, even down to femtosecond, paving a way to generate coherent Smith-Purcell radiation naturally, taken as one of the most promising THz sources. In order to design a high power and broadly tunable THz radiation source, we make theoretical and numerical analysis of the characteristic of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation, which demonstrates good agreement between them. In the paper, we also present the comparison of spectra of coherent Smith-Purcell produced from the interaction of a single bunch and a train of microbunches.

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