Description
THz-driven electron accelerators represent a new concept for the future of electron sources with novel capabilities related to the ultra-high field strengths and short wavelengths achievable with THz-frequency electromagnetic pulses. The new technology comes with new challenges, for example in transporting and coupling ultra-broadband mm-wave radiation. In this project you learn a combination of experimental and numerical skills which will be applied to study the unique way such long wavelength, ultrabroad-band pulses propagate and couple into accelerator structures. Cutting-edge, state of the art resources, including vector-network analyzers, high-power lasers and commercial-grade ray tracing software will support this work which will be supervised by Dr. Reza Bazrafshan, a postdoc together with Dr. Nicholas Matlis, a team leader in the Ultrafast Optics and X-rays group. The work will be done in the CFEL and AXSIS Laboratories at DESY.
| Group | FS-CFEL-UFOX |
|---|---|
| Project Category | A5. Lasers and optics |
