Coherent radiation of microbunched beam in stack of two plates

TL;DR

This paper derives a new expression for transition radiation from a modulated electron bunch passing through a two-plate stack, enabling the generation of coherent, intense, sub-monochromatic X-ray beams at a resonant frequency.

Contribution

It introduces an elegant formula for the frequency-angular distribution of transition radiation and discusses conditions for achieving partial coherence in SASE FELs.

Findings

Derived a new expression for transition radiation distribution.

Identified conditions for coherence at resonant frequencies.

Proposed a method to generate intense sub-monochromatic X-ray beams.

Abstract

The present article is devoted to the radiation from an electron bunch with modulated density passes through the stack consisting of two plates with different thicknesses and electrodynamic properties. The new elegant expression for the frequency-angular distribution of transition radiation is obtained. Using the existence of resonant frequency at which the longitudinal form-factor of bunch not suppresses radiation coherence and choosing parameters for the stack of plates, one can also avoid suppression of the radiation coherence by transverse form-factor of bunch. The radiation from a bunch with modulated density in the process SASE FEL can be partially coherent at a resonant frequency. Then the intense sub monochromatic beam of X-ray photons is formed. On the other hand one can define an important parameter of density modulation depth of bunch which is unknown to this day.