A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

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 …

Optical soliton dynamics can cause extreme alteration of the temporal and spectral shape of
a propagating light pulse. This occurs at up to kilowatt peak powers in glass-core optical …

The free-electron laser, first proposed by Madey in 1971, has significantly reduced laser
wavelengths to the vacuum ultraviolet, and soft X-ray regions. Recently, an X-ray free …

Free-electron lasers (FELs) are promising devices for generating light with laser-like
properties in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray spectral regions. Recently, FELs based on the …

Abstract The recently commissioned Linac Coherent Light Source is an X-ray free-electron
laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It produces coherent soft and hard X-rays …

We report results on the performance of a free-electron laser operating at a wavelength of
13.7 nm where unprecedented peak and average powers for a coherent extreme-ultraviolet …

X-ray free-electron lasers (x-ray FELs) give us for the first time the possibility to explore
structures and dynamical processes of atomic and molecular systems at the angstrom …

High-gain free-electron lasers (FELs) are being developed as extremely bright sources for a
next-generation x-ray facility. In this paper, we review the basic theory of the start-up, the …

X-ray free-electron lasers, produce intense femtosecond pulses that have applications in
exploring new frontiers in science. The unique characteristics of X-ray free-electron laser …