Dielectric laser accelerators

RJ England, RJ Noble, K Bane, DH Dowell, CK Ng… - Reviews of Modern …, 2014 - APS
The use of infrared lasers to power optical-scale lithographically fabricated particle
accelerators is a developing area of research that has garnered increasing interest in recent …

Experimental evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of a high-intensity laser pulse with a laser-wakefield accelerated electron beam

JM Cole, KT Behm, E Gerstmayr, TG Blackburn… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily
influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration …

Experimental signatures of the quantum nature of radiation reaction in the field of an ultraintense laser

K Poder, M Tamburini, G Sarri, A Di Piazza, S Kuschel… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The description of the dynamics of an electron in an external electromagnetic field of
arbitrary intensity is one of the most fundamental outstanding problems in electrodynamics …

Echo-enabled harmonic generation free electron laser

D Xiang, G Stupakov - Physical Review Special Topics—Accelerators and …, 2009 - APS
In this paper, we systematically study the echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) free
electron laser (FEL). The EEHG FEL uses two modulators in combination with two …

Brilliant, coherent far-infrared (THz) synchrotron radiation

M Abo-Bakr, J Feikes, K Holldack, P Kuske… - Physical Review Letters, 2003 - APS
A new technology for generating steady state, brilliant, broadband, coherent, far-infrared
(FIR) radiation in electron storage rings is presented, suitable for FIR spectroscopy. An FIR …

Observation of Broadband Self-Amplified Spontaneous Coherent Terahertz<? format?> Synchrotron Radiation in a Storage Ring

JM Byrd, WP Leemans, A Loftsdottir, B Marcelis… - Physical review …, 2002 - APS
Bursts of coherent synchrotron radiation at far-infrared and millimeter wavelengths have
been observed at several storage rings. A microbunching instability has been proposed as …

Metrology Light Source: The first electron storage ring optimized<? format?> for generating coherent THz radiation

J Feikes, M Von Hartrott, M Ries, P Schmid… - Physical Review Special …, 2011 - APS
The Metrology Light Source is a recently constructed 630 MeV electron storage ring,
operating as a synchrotron radiation source for the THz to extreme UV spectral range. It is …

Tunable narrowband terahertz emission from mastered laser–electron beam interaction

S Bielawski, C Evain, T Hara, M Hosaka, M Katoh… - Nature Physics, 2008 - nature.com
In the quest for sources of optical radiation in the terahertz domain, promising candidates
are nonlinear optical processes occurring when an intense laser beam interacts with a …

Bursts of coherent synchrotron radiation in electron storage rings: a dynamical model

M Venturini, R Warnock - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
Evidence of coherent synchrotron radiation has been reported recently at the electron
storage rings of several light source facilities. The main features of the observations are (i) a …

Steady-state microbunching in a storage ring for generating coherent radiation

DF Ratner, AW Chao - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Synchrotrons and storage rings deliver radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at
high repetition rates, and free electron lasers produce radiation pulses with high peak …