The FEL Program at the PEGASUS Injector
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The PEGASUS photo injector at UCLA can produce a photo-electron beam with a normalized emittance of 2 mm·mrad at an energy of 12-15 MeV, capable of driving a Free-Electron Laser in the mid IR regime. The FEL program, associated with the PEGASUS injector and presented here, is based on a Self-Amplifying Spontaneous Emission (SASE) FEL. The studies focus on increasing the efficiency of an FEL by novel undulator design and compensation of diffraction effects, using waveguides of millimeter size. In this presentation we also discuss the possibility of the PEGASUS FEL as a THz user facility.
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