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Spontaneous emission in the waveguide free-electron laser. Technical report No. 59, 1 October 1985-30 December 1986

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6709691
The incoherent emission from an undulating electron beam in the presence of metallic boundaries is analyzed. A general method of solving Maxwell's equations is used to express the field of a single particle in terms of vector waveguide modes. It is shown that the radiation characteristics depend upon a parameter involving the energy wiggler wavelength, and the waveguide transverse dimension. At some values of this parameter the energy spectrum and angular distribution will differ significantly from the analogous free-space results. The amount of energy emitted into resonator modes is also analyzed in terms of a similar expansion.
Research Organization:
California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA (USA). Quantum Inst.
OSTI ID:
6709691
Report Number(s):
AD-A-221622/4/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English