Abstract
New generation accelerator-based x-ray light sources require high quality electron beams. Parameters such as transverse emittance (projected or “sliced”), energy spread and bunch length for beams in the nC charge range, need to be pushed beyond their present limits for the successful operation of light sources such as Energy Recovery Linacs (ERL) and Free Electron Lasers (FEL). At the same time, the demand for a high average brightness is also driving towards technologies capable of very high repetition rate operation. The overall performance is greatly determined at the accelerator injector and in particular, at the electron gun. In this note, we present a new concept for a high repetition-rate photoinjector, capable of providing pulses up to at least 1 MHz or more.
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