Unfinished Dreams around Free Electron Laser Programs

First experimental programs with the free electron laser

Future structural biology applications with a free-electron laser - more than wild dreams?

A workshop entitled Potential Future Applications in Structural Biology of an X-ray Free-Electron Laser at DESY was held at Hamburg, Germany, on 4-8 July 1999. The aim of the workshop was to identify and discuss potential applications in structural biology using the specific beam properties of the planned X-ray free-electron laser at DESY, Hamburg. The workshop focused on proposals in X-ray cry...

VIEWPOINT Free - Electron Laser Does

L ight is perhaps the pre-eminent scientific tool, not just for observing objects but also for manipulating them. Near the visible part of the spectrum, conventional laser light is especially important thanks to its coherence and tunability, which give scientists fine control of the light beam in space and frequency. But conventional lasers do not operate in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) wavele...

Anomalous free electron laser interaction

Free electron lasers (FELs) are considered, typically, as fast wave devices. The normal FEL interaction satisfies the tuning condition oDðkz þ kWÞVz , where o and kz are the em-wave angular frequency and longitudinal wave number, respectively, Vz is the electron axial speed, and kW is the wiggler periodicity. This paper presents an anomalous FEL interaction, which may occur in slow-wave FELs (i...

Integrated free-electron laser schemes

The integrated-FEL concept is proposed as an alternative approach for the discrete compact-FELs [1]. In the proposed integrated-FEL, the accelerator and the wiggler are integrated for the sake of compaction. Two examples of integrated-FEL schemes are presented here briefly in order to demonstrate the FEL-integration concept: a) A functional integration scheme is shown in fig. 1. Two electron be...