Bibliography

About longitudinal profile reconstruction using the Smith-Purcell technique:

• Longitudinal bunch profile diagnostics in the 50fs range using coherent Smith-Purcell radiation, arXiv:0912.1863v1
• First measurements of the longitudinal bunch profile of a 28.5 GeV beam using coherent Smith-Purcell radiation. Phys.Rev.ST Accel.Beams 12:032803,2009.
  
• Determination of longitudinal bunch shape by means of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation. Phys.Rev.ST Accel.Beams 5:072802,2002.
  
• First observation of Smith-Purcell radiation from relativistic electrons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1761–1764 (1992)
  
• Electron bunch profile reconstruction in the few fs regime using coherent Smith-Purcell radiation R Bartolini et al 2012 JINST 7 P01009 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/7/01/P01009
• Longitudinal electron bunch profile diagnostics at 45 MeV using coherent Smith-Purcell radiation Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 092801 (2006)
• Longitudinal Bunch Profile Diagnostics in the 50-femtoseconds Range using Coherent Smith-Purcell Radiation  IPAC'10 MOPE076
• Victoria Blackmore, Thesis: Determination of the Time Profile of Picosecond-Long Electron Bunches through the use of Coherent Smith-Purcell Radiation JAI-THESIS-2009-01
  
  

Theoretical papers:

• The angular distribution of the power produced by Smith - Purcell radiation J H Brownell et al 1997 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 30 2478
• Smith-Purcell radiation from a charge moving above a grating of finite length and width Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 13, 022804 (2010)
• Role of the grating profile in Smith-Purcell radiation at high energies Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 8, 091301 (2005)
  

Grating comparisons

• Comparison of Smith–Purcell radiation characteristics from gratings with different profiles NIMA Volume 252, Issue 1, November 2006, Pages 62–68
•  Smith–Purcell radiation characteristics from different profiles gratings http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/f07/PAPERS/WEPPH055.PDF
  

Reconstruction techniques

• Coherent Radiation Diagnostics for Short Bunches http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/p07/PAPERS/THYC02.PDF
• The Mermin Fixed Point Veit Elser Foundations of Physics (2003) 33: 1691-1698
• Iterative retrieval of one-dimensional x ray wave field using a single intensity measurement Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 2, pp. 262-264 (2012)
  

More general papers:

• Principles of Longitudinal Beam Diagnostics with Coherent Radiation, TESLA FEL 2006-03
  

Other techniques:

• Few femtosecond, few kiloampere electron bunch produced by a laser–plasma accelerator     Nature Physics 7, 219–222 (2011) doi:10.1038/nphys1872
• Electro-Optic Technique with Improved Time Resolution for Real-Time, Nondestructive, Single-Shot Measurements of Femtosecond Electron Bunch Profiles Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 114802 (2004)
  

About gratings:

• EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFRACTION GRATINGS  http://gratings.newport.com/library/handbook/chapter9.asp
• Grating efficiency theory as it applies to blazed and holographic gratings E. G. Loewen, M. Nevière, and D. Maystre Applied Optics, Vol. 16, Issue 10, pp. 2711-2721 (1977)
• Grating theory: new equations in Fourier space leading to fast converging results for TM polarization Evgeni Popov and Michel Nevière  JOSA A, Vol. 17, Issue 10, pp. 1773-1784 (2000)
• On the efficiencies of rectangular-groove gratings J. L. Roumiguieres, D. Maystre, and R. Petit JOSA, Vol. 66, Issue 8, pp. 772-775 (1976)