Heat load on beamline optics is a serious problem to generate pure linearly polarized photons in the third generation synchrotron radiation facilities. For permanent magnet undulators, this problem can be overcome by a figure-8 operating mode. But there is still no good method to tackle this problem for electromagnetic elliptical undulators. Here, a novel operating mode is suggested, which can generate pure linearly polarized photons with very low on-axis heat load. Also the available minimum photon energy of linearly polarized photons can be extended much by this method.
@article{arxiv.0802.0237,
title = {Knot undulator to generate linearly polarized photons with low on-axis power density},
author = {S. Qiao and Dewei Ma and Donglai Feng and Z. Hussain and Z. -X. Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0237},
year = {2010}
}