Optimization of THz Radiation Pulses at FLUTE

The accelerator test facility FLUTE (Ferninfrarot Linac Und Test Experiment) will allow research and development in electron accelerator technology as well as photon science. Electron bunches of durations in the femtosecond range will be provided to generate intense THz radiation. Start-to-end simulation of the accelerator has been performed with the bunch length as the optimization objective. Based on the resulting charge distribution the expected THz field properties can be calculated. In this paper we combine the two tools and present first results.
Proceedings of the 7th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2016, Busan, Korea