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Regenerative amplifier x-ray free-electron lasers constitute alternative configurations for fourth generation light sources which are typically operated in self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mode. However, SASE exhibits relatively…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Henry P. Freund , P. J. M. van der Slot , P. G. O'Shea

Free-electron lasers (FELs) operate at wavelengths from millimeter waves through hard x-rays. At x-ray wavelengths, FELs typically rely on self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE). Typical SASE emission contains multiple temporal "spikes"…

The most promising way to increase the output power of an X-ray FEL (XFEL) is by tapering the magnetic field of the undulator. Also, significant increase in power is achievable by starting the FEL process from a monochromatic seed rather…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-07-19 Gianluca Geloni , Vitali Kocharyan , Evgeni Saldin

Various scientific and industrial researches such as spectroscopy and advanced nano-technologies have been demanding high flux and fully coherent EUV and X-ray radiation. These demands can be commendably satisfied with a MHz-level…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Xiaofan Wang , Chao Feng , Bart Faatz , Weiqing Zhang , Zhentang Zhao

Free-electron lasers (FELs) can now generate temporally short, high power x-ray pulses of unprecedented brightness, even though their longitudinal coherence is relatively poor. The longitudinal coherence can be potentially improved by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ryan R. Lindberg , Yuri V. Shvyd'ko

XUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) produce short wavelength pulses with high intensity, ultrashort duration, well-defined polarization and transverse coherence, and have been utilised for many experiments previously possible at long…

We propose a scheme allowing coherent shaping, i.e., controlling both the amplitude and phase, of attosecond x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers. We show that by seeding an FEL with a short coherent seed that overfills the amplification…

Oscillators are at the heart of optical lasers, providing stable transform limited pulses. In contrast, X-ray free electron lasers use self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE), resulting in large stochastic intensity and spectral…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-02-13 A. Halavanau , A. Benediktovitch , A. A. Lutman , D. DePonte , D. Cocco , N. Rohringer , U. Bergmann , C. Pellegrini

X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL) create femtosecond X-ray pulses with high brightness and high longitudinal coherence allowing to extend X-ray spectroscopy and scattering techniques into the ultrafast time-domain. These X-rays are a…

High-gain free-electron lasers (FELs) are becoming important light sources at short wavelengths such as the EUV and X-ray regimes. A particularly promising concept is the regenerative amplifier FEL (RAFEL), which can greatly increase the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 River R. Robles , Aliaksei Halavanau , Gabriel Marcus , Zhirong Huang

Attosecond pulses of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light are instrumental for investigating subatomic dynamics and can be produced using a free-electron laser (FEL). It has been suggested that an optical FEL, which employs a laser…

High-brightness X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) produce spatially and temporally coherent pulses on attosecond to femtosecond timescales, providing a transformative tool for discovery across biology, chemistry, physics, and materials…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Ji Qiang

We propose a scheme for generation of single 100 GW 300-as pulse in the X-ray free electron laser with the use of a few cycles optical pulse from Ti:sapphire laser system. Femtosecond optical pulse interacts with the electron beam in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. L. Saldin , E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

We propose a concept for production of high power coherent attosecond pulses in X-ray range. An approach is based on generation of 8th harmonic of radiation in a multistage HGHG FEL (high gain high harmonic free electron laser)…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. L. Saldin , E. A. Schneidmiller , M. V. Yurkov

By utilizing higher harmonics of undulator radiation, harmonic lasing is helpful in the development of compact x-ray free electron lasers (FELs), i.e. reducing its costs and sizes. Harmonic lasing of FELs have been experimentally…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Haixiao Deng , Zhimin Dai

Modern x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) produce x-ray pulses of exceptional transverse coherence. This is due largely to the process of optical guiding by which the radiation is both refractively guided by the bunched electron beam and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 River R. Robles , Gabriel Marcus , Zhirong Huang

Fully coherent x-rays can be generated by self-seeding x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). Self-seeding by a forward Bragg diffraction (FBD) monochromator has been recently proposed [1] and demonstrated [2]. Characteristic time To of FBD…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Xi Yang , Yuri Shvyd'ko

Since the advent of x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), considerable efforts have been devoted to achieve x-ray pulses with better temporal coherence. Here, we put forward a scheme to generate fully coherent x-ray lasers (XRLs) based on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Chunhai Lyu , Stefano M. Cavaletto , Christoph H. Keitel , Zoltán Harman

The ability to arbitrarily dial in amplitudes and phases enables the fundamental quantum state operations pioneered for microwaves and then infrared and visible wavelengths during the second half of the last century. Self-seeded X-ray…