Towards attosecond X-ray pulses from the FEL

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:836046

Zholents, Alexander A; Fawley, William M

The ability to study ultrafast phenomena has been recently advanced by the demonstrated production and measurement of a single, 650-attosecond (10{sup 18} sec), VUV x-ray pulse[1] and, latter, a 250-attosecond pulse[2]. The next frontier is a production of the x-ray pulses with shorter wavelengths and in a broader spectral range. Several techniques for a generation of an isolated, attosecond duration, short-wavelength x-ray pulse based upon the ponderomotive laser acceleration [3], SASE and harmonic cascade FELs ([4] - [6]) had been already proposed. In this paper we briefly review a technique proposed in [5] and present some new results.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 836046
• Report Number(s): LBNL-55689; CBP Note - 573; R&D Project: 455301; TRN: US0500459
• Resource Relation: Conference: 9th Biennial European Particle Accelerator Conference, EPAC'04, Lucerne (CH), 07/05/2004--07/09/2004; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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