Free-electron lasers sources for scientific applications

Free electron lasers: scientific challenge for military and civilian development

Both classified and unclassified experiments throughout the world, most recently at France's Orsay Laboratory for the Utilization of Electromagnetic Radiation, show that the en­ ergy of high-quality electron beams can be directly converted to laser radiation. Theoretical and computer studies based on these experi­ ments indicate that this conversion of "free electron" energy into laser beam ene...

Free-electron lasers. Status and applications.

A free-electron laser consists of an electron beam propagating through a periodic magnetic field. Today such lasers are used for research in materials science, chemical technology, biophysical science, medical applications, surface studies, and solid-state physics. Free-electron lasers with higher average power and shorter wavelengths are under development. Future applications range from indust...

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Free-electron lasers

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 87, NO. 8, 25 OCTOBER 2004 1066 Srinivas Krishnagopal and Vinit Kumar are in the Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452 013, India; Srinivas Krishnagopal and S. K. Sarkar are in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India; Sudipta Maiti and S. S. Prabhu are in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, In...

Lasers , Free - Electron

Free-electron lasers are radiation sources, based on the coherent emission of synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons within an undulator or wiggler. The resonant radiation wavelength depends on the electron beam energy and can be tuned over the entire spectrum from micrometer to X-ray radiation. The emission level of free-electron lasers is several orders of magnitude larger than the e...