An X-ray free-electron laser with a highly configurable undulator and integrated chicanes for tailored pulse properties

E Prat, A Al Haddad, C Arrell, S Augustin, M Boll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are state-of-the-art scientific tools capable to study matter
on the scale of atomic processes. Since the initial operation of X-ray FELs more than a …

A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam

E Prat, R Abela, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex, Y Arbelo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that
recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. SwissFEL is a very …

[PDF][PDF] 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] The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline: Athos

R Abela, A Alarcon, J Alex, C Arrell, V Arsov… - Journal of synchrotron …, 2019 - scripts.iucr.org
The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) beamline Athos will be ready for user
operation in 2021. Its design includes a novel layout of alternating magnetic chicanes and …

Free-electron lasers: SACLA hard-X-ray compact FEL

Z Huang, I Lindau - Nature Photonics, 2012 - nature.com
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FLASH and the FLASH2020+ project—current status and upgrades for the free-electron laser in Hamburg at DESY

M Beye, M Gühr, I Hartl, E Plönjes, L Schaper… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
The free-electron laser in Hamburg, FLASH, is the first extreme ultra-violet and soft X-ray
free-electron laser (FEL) user facility and has been continuously upgraded since its start in …

X-ray free-electron lasers

J Feldhaus, J Arthur, JB Hastings - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In a free-electron laser (FEL) the lasing medium is a high-energy beam of electrons flying
with relativistic speed through a periodic magnetic field. The interaction between the …

An ultra-compact x-ray free-electron laser

JB Rosenzweig, N Majernik, RR Robles… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the field of beam physics, two frontier topics have taken center stage due to their potential
to enable new approaches to discovery in a wide swath of science. These areas are …

Cavity-based free-electron laser research and development: a joint Argonne National Laboratory and SLAC National Laboratory collaboration

G Marcus, FJ Decker - 39th Free Electron Laser Conf./FEL2019 …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
One solution for producing longitudinally coherent FEL pulses is to store and recirculate the
output of an amplifier in an X-ray cavity so that the X-ray pulse can interact with following …

Optical shaping of x-ray free-electron lasers

A Marinelli, R Coffee, S Vetter, P Hering, GN West… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
In this Letter we report the experimental demonstration of a new temporal shaping technique
for x-ray free-electron lasers (FELs). This technique is based on the use of a spectrally …