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 …

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 …

Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate

S Liu, C Grech, M Guetg, S Karabekyan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy in the sub-nanosecond to femtosecond time range
requires ultrashort X-ray pulses and a spectral X-ray flux considerably larger than that …

Beam by design: Laser manipulation of electrons in modern accelerators

E Hemsing, G Stupakov, D **ang, A Zholents - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
Accelerator-based light sources such as storage rings and free-electron lasers use
relativistic electron beams to produce intense radiation over a wide spectral range for …

Generalized longitudinal strong focusing in a steady-state microbunching storage ring

Z Li, X Deng, Z Pan, C Tang, A Chao - Physical Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
Steady-state microbunching (SSMB) storage rings are an appealing option for high-power
extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light sources. In this paper, we propose a generalized longitudinal …

Status of the SXFEL Facility

Z Zhao, D Wang, Q Gu, L Yin, M Gu, Y Leng, B Liu - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The Shanghai soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility (SXFEL) is being developed in two
steps; the SXFEL test facility (SXFEL-TF), and the SXFEL user facility (SXFEL-UF). The …

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 …

Generating high repetition rate X-ray attosecond pulses in a diffraction limited storage ring

W Liu, Y Zhao, Y Jiao, S Wang - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
To steer and track electron motion in atoms, molecules, and nanostructures, light pulses with
attosecond duration and high repetition rate are required. In this paper, we use the angular …

A storage ring based free-electron laser for generating ultrashort coherent EUV and X-ray radiation

C Feng, Z Zhao - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Generation of ultrashort coherent radiation pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and x-ray
regime is of remarkable interest in the synchrotron radiation user community. In this work, a …

Coherent extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser with echo-enabled harmonic generation

C Feng, H Deng, M Zhang, X Wang, S Chen, T Liu… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
The echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) scheme holds promising prospects for
efficiently generating intense coherent radiation at very high harmonics of a conventional …