Principles of Free Electron Lasers

• Main Authors: Freund, H. P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Antonsen, Jr., T. M. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

This book presents a comprehensive description of the physics of free-electron lasers starting from the fundamentals and proceeding through detailed derivations of the equations describing electron trajectories, and spontaneous and stimulated emission. Linear and nonlinear analyses are described, as...