Use of the Lorentz-Boosted Frame Transformation to Simulate Free-Electron Laser Amplifier Physics
- Center for Beam Physics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
Recently it has been pointed out that numerical simulation of some systems containing charged particles with highly relativistic directed motion can by speeded up by orders of magnitude by choice of the proper Lorentz boosted frame. A particularly good example is that of short wavelength free-electron lasers (FELs) in which a high energy (E{sub 0}{>=}250 MeV) electron beam interacts with a static magnetic undulator. In the optimal boost frame with Lorentz factor {gamma}F, the red-shifted FEL radiation and blue shifted undulator have identical wavelengths and the number of required time-steps (presuming the Courant condition applies) decreases by a factor of {gamma}{sub F}{sup 2} for fully electromagnetic simulation.We have adapted the WARP code to apply this method to several FEL problems including coherent spontaneous emission (CSE) from pre-bunched e-beams, and strong exponential gain in a single pass amplifier configuration. We discuss our results and compare with those from the 'standard' FEL simulation approach which adopts the eikonal approximation for propagation of the radiation field.
- OSTI ID:
- 21255244
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1086, Issue 1; Conference: 13. advanced accelerator concepts workshop, Santa Cruz, CA (United States), 27 Jul - 2 Aug 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3080930; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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GENERAL PHYSICS
AMPLIFIERS
CHARGED PARTICLES
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MEV RANGE 100-1000
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
RED SHIFT
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
SIMULATION
TRANSFORMATIONS
WAVELENGTHS
WIGGLER MAGNETS