-A 4keV electron beam passed by a SiN

(Au coated) wall while an optical laser

(658-800nm) is focused on the wall near
the e-beams path.

-This results in the electrons path being
deflected by as much as
260mradians.

-By turning the laser on and off via
mechanical chopper or AOM. The
resulting e-beams position downstream
can be switched
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Left: Switching speed is measured to be as fast as 6ms, with an observable switch
when the laser is chopped as fast as 200kHz. Right: e-beam can be steered when it
is as far as 200 mm away
- After successive measurements, it
seems that the total count rate is
also increasing with time
- When we increased the laser
power above 10mW, we found that
we were slowly burning holes in
the grating
Create a Fast electron switch
(femtosecond regime) has important use
for the fast detection of electrons in
experiments such as;
- Electron Stern-Gerlach experiment [2]
- Freefall experiment for electrons
(see Maria Beckers talk, Friday @
12:06 12:18 PM in room Hall EH [3])

- Plasmonic physics [4]


-Detect ultrafast physics [5][6]
-Electron dispersion compensator [7]
If we can match the laser frequency with
the electrons travel time, we can access a
steering process that will be as fast as 2.7fs
[8][9]






















Laser Intensity
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A 10keV electron Beam is diffracted
through a SiN diffraction grating while a
658nm laser beam is also incident on the
grating ( see Eric Jones talk Thursday @
5:245:36 PM in room Hall EH [10]
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We gratefully acknowledge the funding support from NSF Grant No 0969506
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