Some latest developments of accelerator applications in China are given in this paper. The application areas mentioned here are including radiotherapy, radioactive isotope medicines, irradiation, non-destructive-test and cargo inspections. There are more than 700 linacs used for radiotherapy in china, and among them about 400 sets are made domestically. Specially emphasized are the cargo inspections applications of linacs in china. Until now, more than 50 large container inspection systems domestically produced using linacs as x-ray sources have been installed in China and other countries. Cyclotrons are also developed for medicine producing and high voltage accelerators with high beam power for removing SO2 and NOx from coal-fired flue gas in electricity plant. This paper is mainly on the accelerator technology and application activities in China carried out these years.

The ponderomotive potential structure of a multimode combined intense laser beam is studied. Using a three-dimensional test particle simulation, the interaction of slow electrons with the combined laser beam in vacuum is investigated. The calculation shows that electrons distributed on a large scale can be accelerated to relativistic energy in vacuum. A violent longitudinal bunch compression phenomenon is also presented and discussed.

The interaction of low energy electrons with multimode combined intense laser beams in vacuum was studied by using three-dimensional test particle simulation. The process of interaction and the ponderomotive potential structures of some multimode combined intense laser beams are analyzed in detail. This article presents the detailed characteristics of the multimode combined intense laser-induced electron acceleration and violent bunch compression [Wang et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 2752 (2003)]. The properties of the output electron bunch are also investigated.

A multi-cell thermionic RF electron gun with significantly reduced back bombardment effect is designed, built, and its performance measured. A macro-pulse current of about 800mA, maximum electron energy of 1.8MeV and geometric RMS emittance after the alpha magnet of 20-30 πmmmrad are obtained. This RF electron gun will be used in the Beijing free electron laser facility (BFEL).