Los Alamos Advanced Free-Electron Laser

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5113843

Chan, K C.D.; Kraus, R H; Ledford, J; Meier, K L; Meyer, R E; Nguyen, D; Sheffield, R L; Sigler, F L; Young, L M; Wang, T S; Wilson, W L; Wood, R L

At Los Alamos, we are building a free-electron laser (FEL) for industrial, medical, and research applications. This FEL, which will incorporate many of the new technologies developed over the last decade, will be compact in size, robust, and user-friendly. Electrons produced by a photocathode will be accelerated to 20 MeV by a high-brightness accelerator and transported using permanent-magnet quadrupoles and dipoles. They will form an electron beam with an excellent instantaneous beam quality of 10 {pi} mm mrad in transverse emittance and 0.3% in energy spread at a peak current up to 300 A. Including operation at higher harmonics, the laser wavelength extends form 3.7 {mu}m to 0.4 {mu}m. In this paper, we will describe the project and the programs to date. 10 refs., 10 figs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5113843
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-91-3139; CONF-9108118--23; ON: DE92002450
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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