Short-Wavelength Free-Electron Lasers

Short wavelength free electron lasers in 2000

Twenty-three years after the first operation of the short wavelength free electron laser (FEL) at Stanford University, there continue to be many important experiments, proposed experiments, and user facilities around the world. Properties of FELs operating in the infrared, visible, UV, and X-ray wavelength regimes are listed and discussed. r 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Demonstration of the echo-enabled harmonic generation technique for short-wavelength seeded free electron lasers.

We report the first experimental demonstration of the echo-enabled harmonic generation technique, which holds great promise for generation of high-power, fully coherent short-wavelength radiation. In this experiment, coherent radiation at the 3rd and 4th harmonics of the second seed laser is generated from the so-called beam echo effect. The experiment confirms the physics behind this technique...

First demonstration of the echo-enabled harmonic generation technique for short-wavelength seeded free electron lasers

We report the first experimental demonstration of the echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) technique which holds great promise for generation of high power, fully coherent short-wavelength radiation. In this experiment, coherent radiation at the 3rd and 4th harmonic of the second seed laser is generated from the so-called beam echo effect. The experiment confirms the physics behind this tech...

Short wavelength regenerative amplifier free elec - tron lasers

A regenerative amplifier free-electron laser (RAFEL) is a highgain resonator FEL which achieves saturation in a few round-trips of the radiation in a high-loss, and hence low feedback, optical cavity. Because the radiation feedback fraction is low it is feasible that the use of low reflectivity optics in the resonator makes the RAFEL a candidate for short wavelength operation [1]. Several RAFEL...

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