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  title info:
    title: Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers
    sub title: Introduction to Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technological Challenges
  name:
    name part: Schmüser, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Dohlus, Martin.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rossbach, Jörg.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 207 p. 88 illus., 84 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: In the introduction accelerator-based light sources are considered and a comparison is made between free-electron lasers and conventional quantum lasers. The motion and radiation of relativistic electrons in undulator magnets is discussed. The principle of a low-gain free-electron laser is explained and the pendulum equations are introduced that characterize the electron dynamics in the field of a light wave. The differential equations of the high-gain FEL are derived from the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. Analytical and numerical solutions of the FEL equations are presented and important FEL parameters are defined, such as gain length, FEL bandwidth and saturation power. A detailed numerical study of the all-important microbunching process is presented. The mechanism of Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission is described theoretically and illustrated with numerous experimental results. Three-dimensional effects such as betatron oscillations and optical diffraction are addressed and their impact on the FEL performance is analyzed. The world’s first soft X-ray FEL, the user facility FLASH at DESY, is described in some detail in order to give an impression of the complexity of such an accelerator-based light source. Finally, the physical and technological challenges of X-ray FELs are addressed while some of the more involved calculations are put into the appendices, where also supplementary material can be found.
  table of contents: Undulator Radiation -- Low-Gain FEL Theory -- One-Dimensional Theory of the High-Gain FEL -- Discussion of the High-Gain FEL Equations -- Refinements of the One-Dimensional FEL Theory -- Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission -- The Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray FEL in Hamburg -- Physical and Technological Challenges of an X-Ray FEL.
  note: by Peter Schmüser, Martin Dohlus, Jörg Rossbach.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Optics
  subject:
    topic: Electrodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum optics
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Lasers
  subject:
    topic: Photonics
  subject:
    topic: Microwaves
  subject:
    topic: Optical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Optics
  subject:
    topic: Laser Technology, Photonics
  subject:
    topic: Optics and Electrodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  subject:
    topic: Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 535.15
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 229
  identifier: 9783540795728
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79572-8
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    record creation date: 110706
    record change date: 20151204182813.0
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