Stimulated X-ray Raman scattering in Free Electron Lasers with incoherent spectrum
Accelerator Physics
2016-12-08 v1
Abstract
The single-pulse spectrum of self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) free electron lasers (FELs) is characterized by random fluctuations in frequency. The typical spectrum bandwidth for a hard x-ray FEL is in the range of 10-20 eV and is comparable with the distance between energy levels of valence electrons in atoms an molecules. We calculate the rate of transitions in a quantum three-level system with the energy difference of several eV caused by such radiation and show that for x-ray intensities in the range of W/cm the probability of the transition over the duration of the x-ray pulse is large. We argue that this effect can be used to modify the spectrum of a SASE FEL potentially making it more narrow.
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@article{arxiv.1612.02076,
title = {Stimulated X-ray Raman scattering in Free Electron Lasers with incoherent spectrum},
author = {Gennady Stupakov and Max Zolotorev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02076},
year = {2016}
}