Active q-switched x-ray regenerative amplifier free-electron laser

J Tang, Z Zhang, J Morgan, E Hemsing, Z Huang - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Despite tremendous progress in x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) science over the last decade,
future applications still demand fully coherent, stable x rays that have not been …

An outlook on using serial femtosecond crystallography in drug discovery

A Mishin, A Gusach, A Luginina, E Marin… - Expert Opinion on …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: X-ray crystallography has made important contributions to modern drug
development but its application to many important drug targets has been extremely …

Refractive guide switching a regenerative amplifier free-electron laser for high peak and average power hard x rays

G Marcus, A Halavanau, Z Huang, J Krzywinski… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We present an x-ray regenerative amplifier free-electron laser design capable of producing
fully coherent hard x-ray pulses across a broad tuning range at a high steady state repetition …

Terawatt attosecond x-ray source driven by a plasma accelerator

C Emma, X Xu, A Fisher, R Robles, JP MacArthur… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma accelerators can generate ultra-high-brightness electron beams that open the door
to light sources with a smaller physical footprint and properties un-achievable with …

Site-specific interrogation of an ionic chiral fragment during photolysis using an X-ray free-electron laser

M Ilchen, P Schmidt, NM Novikovskiy… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Short-wavelength free-electron lasers with their ultrashort pulses at high intensities have
originated new approaches for tracking molecular dynamics from the vista of specific sites. X …

Photon yield of superradiant inverse Compton scattering from microbunched electrons

BH Schaap, TDC de Vos, PW Smorenburg… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Compact x-ray sources offering high-brightness radiation for advanced imaging applications
are highly desired. We investigate, analytically and numerically, the photon yield of …

Single-particle dynamics of microbunching

XJ Deng, AW Chao, J Feikes, WH Huang, M Ries… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
The mechanism of steady-state microbunching (SSMB) has been proposed [DF Ratner and
AW Chao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154801 (2010) PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett …

Nanoscale polarization transient gratings

L Foglia, B Wehinger, G Perosa, R Mincigrucci… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Light manipulation at the nanoscale is essential both for fundamental science and modern
technology. The quest to shorter lengthscales, however, requires the use of light …

Ponderomotive bunching of a relativistic electron beam for a superradiant Thomson source

BH Schaap, CW Sweers, PW Smorenburg… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
Imposing a density modulation on an electron beam may improve the brightness of a
Thomson source by orders of magnitude via superradiant emission. In this paper, we …

Electron beam sha** for actively outcoupling radiation from an x-ray regenerative amplifier free-electron laser

J Tang, JP Duris, G Marcus, A Marinelli - Physical Review Accelerators and …, 2022 - APS
We present a method to actively outcouple radiation from an x-ray regenerative amplifier.
The method uses an undulator within a cavity formed by the diamond mirror and is driven by …