An Ultra-Compact X-ray Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser

Madison Singleton; James Rosenzweig; Jingyi Tang; Zhirong Huang

doi:10.3390/instruments8010002

Instruments (Jan 2024)

An Ultra-Compact X-ray Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser

Madison Singleton,
James Rosenzweig,
Jingyi Tang,
Zhirong Huang

Affiliations

Madison Singleton: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
James Rosenzweig: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Jingyi Tang: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Zhirong Huang: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments8010002
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
p. 2

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There is a growing interest in designing and building compact X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) for scientific and industry applications. In this paper, we report an X-ray Regenerative Amplifier FEL (XRAFEL) design based on a proposed Ultra Compact X-ray FEL configuration. Our results show that an XRAFEL can dramatically enhance the temporal coherence and increase the spectral brightness of the radiation in the hard X-ray regime without increasing the footprint of the FEL configuration. The proposed compact, fully coherent, and high-flux hard X-ray source holds promise as a valuable candidate for a wide range of high-impact applications in both academia and industry.

Published in Instruments

ISSN: 2410-390X (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Physics: Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/instruments

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