1992 Workshop on Scientific Applications of Short Wavelength Coherent Light Sources
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
This workshop was motivated by two recent developments which have opened the possibility that the SIAC linac could be used to drive an x-ray laser at very short wavelengths. The workshop was called to explore possible scientific applications of the extremely high power, brightness, and coherence of such a source. The first development is the success at Los Alamos and elsewhere with high brightness, rf photocathode electron guns which can now deliver low emittance (3-4 mm-mrad normalized emittance), high charge (>l nC) electron beams, meeting the requirements of linac-driven short wavelength x-ray lasers. The second is the development at SLAC, as part of the SLC project, of the equipment, tools, and understanding associated with the transport, acceleration, and compression of such high brightness electron bunches without dilution of phase space density. The design of a short wavelength linac-based x-ray laser, which we call a Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), has been studied in detail by a SLAC, UCLA, LBL, LLNL group since it was proposed at the Workshop on Fourth Generation Light Sources held at SLAC in February 1992.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1454096
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-R-414; SLAC/SSRL-0007; CONF-9210278
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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