Projected performance of rf-linac-driven free-electron lasers in the VUV and soft x-ray regions
A multidisciplinary team of Los Alamos scientists, supported by the US Department of Energy, has been developing the requisite technologies to extend free-electron laser (FEL) operation from infrared and visible wavelengths into the extreme-ultraviolet below 100 nm using rf-linear accelerator technology. The goal is to establish an XUV Free-Electron Laser User Facility, the next-generation light source that will make available to researchers optical power more than one-million times greater than provided by synchroton light sources. Based primarily on a series of FEL oscillators driven by a single, rf-linac, the Los Alamos facility is designed to generate broadly tunable, picosecond-pulse, coherent radiation spanning the soft x-ray through the ultraviolet to the visible spectral ranges from 1 nm to 400 nm. The FEL facility design is discussed and performance predicted. 3 figs., 5 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5481966
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-87-4245; CONF-880318-1; ON: DE88004294
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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