skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Non-invasive low charge electron beam time-of-arrival diagnostic using a plasmonics-enhanced photoconductive antenna

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5052631· OSTI ID:1490453
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2];  [1];  [4]
  1. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  3. RadiaBeam Technologies, Santa Monica, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. RadiaBeam Technologies, Santa Monica, CA (United States)
+ Show Author Affiliations

The use of a plasmonics-enhanced photoconductive antenna (PCA) optically gated by a near infrared (NIR) pulse enables non-invasive time-of-arrival measurements of a low charge electron beam with respect to the NIR reference, achieving picosecond resolution. The measured signal values show the expected scaling with the beam charge and distance from PCA to the beam axis, as the PCA samples the electric field of the passing electron beam. We operate the device with an NIR spot size much larger than the PCA active-area, resulting in a very simple optical setup and alignment procedure, making the plasmonics-enhanced PCA a preferred alternative to more complex timing diagnostics for applications requiring non-invasive picosecond or sub-picosecond timestamping.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; SC0009914; PHY-1734215
OSTI ID:
1490453
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 19; ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 1 work
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (35)

Surface-Plasmon Resonance-Enhanced Multiphoton Emission of High-Brightness Electron Beams from a Nanostructured Copper Cathode journal February 2013
Subpicosecond photoconducting dipole antennas journal February 1988
Modeling and experimental study to identify arrival-time jitter sources in the presence of a magnetic chicane journal September 2013
Subpicosecond Electro-optic Measurement of Relativistic Electron Pulses journal October 2000
Detecting Electron Motion in Atoms and Molecules journal December 2010
Few-femtosecond timing at fourth-generation X-ray light sources journal January 2011
Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free-electron lasers journal February 2013
High time resolution beam-based measurement of the rf-to-laser jitter in a photocathode rf gun journal March 2014
Ultrafast gating of a mid-infrared laser pulse by a sub-pC relativistic electron beam journal December 2015
Femtosecond timing-jitter between photo-cathode laser and ultra-short electron bunches by means of hybrid compression journal August 2016
Coherent terahertz detection with a large-area photoconductive antenna journal August 2007
THz Sommerfeld wave propagation on a single metal wire journal April 2005
High Sensitivity Terahertz Detection through Large-Area Plasmonic Nano-Antenna Arrays journal February 2017
PLEIADES: A picosecond Compton scattering x-ray source for advanced backlighting and time-resolved material studies journal May 2004
High-Power Terahertz Generation Using Large-Area Plasmonic Photoconductive Emitters journal March 2015
Electron Bunch Timing with Femtosecond Precision in a Superconducting Free-Electron Laser journal April 2010
Terahertz Bessel-Gauss beams of radial and azimuthal polarization from microstructured photoconductive antennas journal January 2009
Mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory journal July 2015
Plasmonic metasurface for efficient ultrashort pulse laser-driven particle acceleration journal December 2014
Nanoplasmonic Terahertz Photoconductive Switch on GaAs journal February 2012
Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers journal July 2014
Design and performance of a THz emission and detection setup based on a semi-insulating GaAs emitter journal April 2002
Clocking Femtosecond X Rays journal March 2005
Scalable Microstructured Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters journal December 2011
Significant performance enhancement in photoconductive terahertz optoelectronics by incorporating plasmonic contact electrodes journal March 2013
Evaluation of the cone-shaped pickup performance for low charge sub-10 fs arrival-time measurements at free electron laser facilities journal January 2015
A perspective on novel sources of ultrashort electron and X-ray pulses journal January 2012
Femtosecond electron diffraction: heralding the era of atomically resolved dynamics journal August 2011
Temporal resolution of MeV ultrafast electron diffraction based on a photocathode RF gun
  • Li, Ren-Kai; Tang, Chuan-Xiang
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 605, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.03.236
journal July 2009
Capturing ultrafast structural evolutions with a single pulse of MeV electrons: Radio frequency streak camera based electron diffraction journal December 2010
Beyond injection: Trojan horse underdense photocathode plasma wakefield acceleration
  • Hidding, B.; Rosenzweig, J. B.; Xi, Y.
  • ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: 15th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, AIP Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773760
conference January 2013
Generation and detection of terahertz pulses from biased semiconductor antennas journal January 1996
Electro-optic sampling at 90 degree interaction geometry for time-of-arrival stamping of ultrafast relativistic electron diffraction journal February 2010
Modeling and experimental study to identify arrival-time jitter sources in the presence of a magnetic chicane text January 2013
Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers text January 2014

Figures / Tables (6)

FIG. 1(p. 2)figure FIG. 1
Table I(p. 2)table Table I
FIG. 2(p. 3)figure FIG. 2
FIG. 3(p. 3)figure FIG. 3
FIG. 4(p. 3)figure FIG. 4
FIG. 5(p. 4)figure FIG. 5

Similar Records

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
terahertz radiation
antennas
particle accelerators
semiconductors
plasmonics
photoconductive materials
electron beams