Features and futures of X-ray free-electron lasers

N Huang, H Deng, B Liu, D Wang, Z Zhao - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Linear accelerator-based free-electron lasers (FELs) are the leading source of fully coherent
X-rays with ultra-high peak powers and ultra-short pulse lengths. Current X-ray FEL facilities …

[HTML][HTML] 10 years of pioneering X-ray science at the Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY

J Rossbach, JR Schneider, W Wurth - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Free-electron lasers produce extremely brief, coherent, and bright laser-like photon pulses
that allow to image matter at atomic resolution and at timescales faster than the …

Roadmap of ultrafast x-ray atomic and molecular physics

L Young, K Ueda, M Gühr… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and table-top sources of x-rays based upon high
harmonic generation (HHG) have revolutionized the field of ultrafast x-ray atomic and …

Attosecond electron pulse trains and quantum state reconstruction in ultrafast transmission electron microscopy

KE Priebe, C Rathje, SV Yalunin, T Hohage, A Feist… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Ultrafast electron and X-ray imaging and spectroscopy are the basis for an ongoing
revolution in the understanding of dynamical atomic-scale processes in matter. The …

Coherent soft X-ray pulses from an echo-enabled harmonic generation free-electron laser

P Rebernik Ribič, A Abrami, L Badano, M Bossi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs), which amplify light emitted by a relativistic electron beam,
are extending nonlinear optical techniques to shorter wavelengths, adding element …

Review of fully coherent free-electron lasers

C Feng, HX Deng - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2018 - Springer
Generation of intense, fully coherent radiation with wide spectral coverage has been a long-
standing challenge for laser technologies. Several techniques have been developed in …

The SXFEL upgrade: from test facility to user facility

B Liu, C Feng, D Gu, F Gao, H Deng, M Zhang, S Sun… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Shanghai soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility (SXFEL), which is the first X-ray FEL
facility in China, is being constructed in two phases: the test facility (SXFEL-TF) and the user …

Coherent and ultrashort soft x-ray pulses from echo-enabled harmonic cascade free-electron lasers

C Feng, T Liu, S Chen, K Zhou, K Zhang, Z Qi, D Gu… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
It is a long-standing challenge for laser technologies to generate intense fully coherent
pulses in the x-ray regime. Here, we demonstrate an external seeding mechanism, termed …

Self-amplification of coherent energy modulation in seeded free-electron lasers

J Yan, Z Gao, Z Qi, K Zhang, K Zhou, T Liu, S Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The spectroscopic techniques for time-resolved fine analysis of matter require coherent x-ray
radiation with femtosecond duration and high average brightness. Seeded free-electron …

Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser

A Ghaith, ME Couprie, D Oumbarek-Espinos… - Physics reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The fourth generation of synchrotron radiation sources, commonly referred to as the Free
Electron Laser (FEL), provides an intense source of brilliant X-ray beams enabling the …