Theory and Experiments on the Generation of Spontaneous Emission Using a Plasma Wave Undulator: A Progress Report
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We are studying the feasibility of using relativistically moving plasma waves as short wavelength undulators for possible FEL and Compton scattering applications at UCLA. The remarkable property of such waves is that the wiggler parameter aw eA/mc2 can be on the order 0.1 while their wavelength w can be submillimeter. Such waves can be excited by either an intense electron bunch going through a plasma (plasma wake field) or a short but intense laser pulse going through the plasma (laser wake field).
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