Reports from Circulating Brains
From SANKEN to Overseas Institutes
Koichi Kan
Assistant Professor
SANKEN/ISIR
Stanford University
Arrival: 31 January, 2017
About Myself
I (Koichi Kan) was dispatched to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University in the USA from 31st January to 31st March 2017. My studies are generation of ultrashort electron beam and terahertz (THz) spectroscopy related to electron beam. Electron beam is a powerful tool for physics, chemistry, and biology using wide range of electromagnetic radiation including X-ray, visible, infrared, and THz waves. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, which is located near San Francisco, has various accelerators. In SLAC, Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has been developed as an X-ray free electron laser facility using 13 GeV electron beam and structural dynamics are studied in various materials. LCLS is under upgrading to LCLS-II for more intense X-ray. Now I study and simulate a compact THz source, in which several techniques in LCLS are used.