Various continuous-wave (CW) electron gun technologies are reviewed, including DC,
superconducting radio frequency RF (SRF), hybrid DC-SRF and normal-conducting RF …

High‐brightness electron beam sources play a crucial role in many advanced acceleration
schemes as well as linac‐based light sources such as Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) based …

Requirements and challenges for high-brightness electron injectors operating in a high-
repetition-rate X-ray FEL are described. Schemes presently under development or study are …

Abstract In recent years, Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) type photocathodes have become widely
used as electron sources in modern Energy Recovery Linac based light sources such as the …

The ERLP energy recovery linac prototype at Daresbury Laboratory has been rebranded,
and is now called ALICE (A ccelerators and L asers I n C ombined E xperiments). This paper …

In high-voltage DC photoinjector guns, the drive laser pulse duration affects the electron
bunch characteristics and is therefore an important subject for experimental investigation in …

The energy recovery linac prototype at Daresbury is now called ALICE (Accelerators and
Lasers In Combined Experiments). This paper presents the results obtained in the past year …

In the last few years, the formidable results of x-ray light sources based on FELs opened the
door to classes of experiments not accessible before. Operating facilities have relatively low …

The ALICE facility is an energy recovery test accelerator whose applications include an IR-
FEL and THz generation. Of primary importance to the performance of the main ALICE …

The ALICE facility at Daresbury Laboratory is an energy recovery test accelerator which
includes an infrared oscillator-type free electron laser (IR-FEL). The longitudinal phase …