  The current designs of future electron-positron linear colliders incorporate
large and complex damping rings to produce asymmetric beams for beamstrahlung
suppression. Here we present the design of an electron injector capable of
delivering flat electron beams with phase-space partition comparable to the
electron-beam parameters produced downstream of the damping ring in the
proposed international linear collider (ILC) design. Our design does not employ
a damping ring but is instead based on cross-plane phase-space-manipulation
techniques. The performance of the proposed configuration, its sensitivity to
jitter along with its impact on spin-polarization is investigated. The proposed
paradigm could be adapted to other linear collider concepts under consideration
and offers a path toward significant cost and complexity reduction.
