Recent Advanced in Free Electron Laser Theory

Abstract

Free electron lasers (FELs) have advanced to the stage where the experiments may be considered to have verified the essential FEL theories. The future research in FELs will be strongly tied to applications. There exist many types of lasers and optical techniques to obtain the required laser characteristics in the optical regime. FELs can make significant impact in the IR, UV and x-ray regimes, where conventional lasers are limited. Competition with other sources also requires FEls to be compact and user oriented. The theory developments addressing some of these issues will be presented in this paper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 11, 1991
Accession Number
ADA236826

Entities

People

  • Chai AMei Tang

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coherent Radiation
  • Diffraction
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Free Electron Lasers
  • Free Electrons
  • Frequency
  • High Gain
  • Intensity
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Lasers
  • Radiation
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Simulations
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics