If it quacks like a Laser and swims like a Laser... The Physics of Free-electron Lasers

Agostino Marinelli

2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
(Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
paper JSI_1_1

If it quacks like a Laser and swims like a Laser... The Physics of Free-electron Lasers

Agostino Marinelli

European Quantum Electronics Conference 2017

Munich Germany
25–29 June 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5090-6736-7

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Principals and New Approaches (JSI_1)

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Abstract

The X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) has revolutionized X-ray science, enhancing the peak X-ray brightness by ten orders of magnitude. XFELs share many properties of conventional lasers, such as high-intensity, transverse coherence and the possibility to generate ultrashort pulses.

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