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We discuss coherent free electron laser (FEL) operating during explosive reconnection events in magnetized pair plasma of magnetar magnetospheres. The model explains many salient features of Fast Radio Bursts/magnetars' radio emission:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-30 Maxim Lyutikov

The mid-infrared range is an important spectrum range where materials exhibit a characteristic response corresponding to their molecular structure. A free-electron laser (FEL) is a promising candidate for a high-power light source with…

We present for the first time the concept of a seeded {\gamma} quantum Free-Electron-Laser (QFEL) at 478 keV, which has very different properties compared to a classical. The basic concept is to produce a highly brilliant {\gamma} beam via…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. M. Günther , M. Jentschel , P. G. Thirolf , T. Seggebrock , D. Habs

The laser field depletion in laser-electron beam collision is generally small. However, a properly chosen parameter of the laser and electron, the laser field depletion can be optimized. To access the laser energy evolution, simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 J. F. Ong , T. Moritaka , H. Takabe

We derive an effective Dicke model in momentum space to describe collective effects in the quantum regime of a free-electron laser (FEL). The resulting exponential gain from a single passage of electrons allows the operation of a Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Peter Kling , Enno Giese , C. Moritz Carmesin , Roland Sauerbrey , Wolfgang P. Schleich

Using a quantum kinetic equation coupled to Maxwell's equation we study the possibility that focused beams at proposed X-ray free electron laser facilities can generate electric field strengths large enough to cause spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , M. B. Hecht , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

Besides the target to pursue the narrow bandwidth X-ray pulses, the large bandwidth free-electron laser pulses are also strongly demanded to satisfy a wide range of scientific user experiments. In this paper, using the transversely tilt…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Minghao Song , Jiawei Yan , Kai Li , Chao Feng , Haixiao Deng

A method to achieve High-Brightness Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (HB-SASE) in the Free Electron Laser (FEL) is described. The method uses repeated non-equal electron beam delays to de-localise the collective FEL interaction and break…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. W. J. McNeil , N. R. Thompson , D. J. Dunning

In the present article we investigate optical near fields in semiconductor lasers. We perform finite element simulations for two different laser types, namely a super large optical waveguide (SLOW) laser, which is an edge emitter, and a…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-30 J. Pomplun , S. Burger , F. Schmidt , A. Schliwa , D. Bimberg , A. Pietrzak , H. Wenzel , G. Erbert

Betatron radiation is produced in Laser Plasma Accelerators when the electrons are accelerated and simultaneously wiggle across the propagation axis. The mechanisms of electron acceleration and X-ray radiation production follow different…

Self-injection locking is a dynamic phenomenon representing stabilization of the emission frequency of an oscillator with a passive cavity enabling frequency filtered coherent feedback to the oscillator cavity. For instance, self-injection…

By tailoring the wavefront of the laser pulse used in a laser-wakefield accelerator, we show that the properties of the x-rays produced due to the electron beam's betatron oscillations in the plasma can be controlled. By creating a…

Free-electron lasers (FELs) generate the brightest coherent X-ray pulses available, enabling atomic-resolution and femtosecond-timescale studies across physics, chemistry, and biology. Realising their full potential at extreme peak powers…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Çağrı Erciyes , Christoph H. Keitel , Matteo Tamburini

The problem of X-ray Free-Electron Laser operating on self-amplified spontaneous emission in irregular microundulator is considered. The case when the spectrum width of spontaneous radiation is conditioned by the spatial distribution of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Lekdar Gevorgian , Valeri Vardanyan

A quantum kinetic equation coupled with Maxwell's equation is used to estimate the laser power required at an XFEL facility to expose intrinsically quantum effects in the process of QED vacuum decay via spontaneous pair production. A 9…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

We propose a new approach, based on statistical mechanics, to predict the saturated state of a single-pass, high-gain free-electron laser (FEL). In analogy with the violent relaxation process in self-gravitating systems and in the Euler…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Barre' , Thierry Dauxois , Giovanni De Ninno , Duccio Fanelli , Stefano Ruffo

Spontaneous emission of the quantum system driven by a high intensity classical laser field is analyzed. The study is based on the accurate consideration of quantum system interaction with vacuum quantized field modes in the first order of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 A. V. Bogatskaya , E. A. Volkova , A. M. Popov

It is not clear if the performance of a quantum lidar or radar, without an idler and only using Gaussian resources, could exceed the performance of a semiclassical setup based on coherent states and homodyne detection. Here we prove this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola

In this work, we investigate how and to which extent a quantum system can be driven along a prescribed path in Hilbert space by a suitably shaped laser pulse. To calculate the optimal, i.e., the variationally best pulse, a properly defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Serban , J. Werschnik , E. K. U. Gross

In order to meet requirements of the synchrotron radiation users, a fully coherent VUV free electron laser (FEL) has been preliminarily designed. One important goal of this design is that the radiation wavelength can be easily tuned in a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Li He-Ting , Jia Qi-Ka