Abstract
Ultra-cold plasmas with electron temperatures of ~10 K can be created by photo-ionization just above threshold of a cloud of laser-cooled atoms. Recently it was shown 7 by GPT particle tracking simulations that an ultra-cold plasma has an enormous potential as a pulsed bright electron source. Here we discuss these results in the framework of normalized 6D brightness, which allows us to make a proper comparison both with the performance of pulsed, radio-frequency photo-emission sources and with the performance of continuous, needle-like field-emission sources. In addition we speculate on the possibility of using ultra-cold plasmas to realize quantum degenerate electron beams, constituting the ultimate limit in electron beam brightness.
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Created | 17 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 12, 2007, 6:43 a.m.) |
Deposited | 6 years ago (Aug. 7, 2019, 9:39 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 2 months ago (June 16, 2024, 7:36 p.m.) |
Issued | 17 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 10, 2007) |
Published | 17 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 10, 2007) |
Published Online | 13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 25, 2012) |
Published Print | 17 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 10, 2007) |
@article{LUITEN_2007, title={ULTRACOLD ELECTRON SOURCES}, volume={22}, ISSN={1793-656X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x07037494}, DOI={10.1142/s0217751x07037494}, number={22}, journal={International Journal of Modern Physics A}, publisher={World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt}, author={LUITEN, O. J. and CLAESSENS, B. J. and VAN DER GEER, S. B. and REIJNDERS, M. P. and TABAN, G. and VREDENBREGT, E. J. D.}, year={2007}, month=sep, pages={3882–3897} }