Linac coherent light source: The first five years

C Bostedt, S Boutet, DM Fritz, Z Huang, HJ Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
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 …

Beam by design: Laser manipulation of electrons in modern accelerators

E Hemsing, G Stupakov, D Xiang, 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 …

First lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser

P Emma, R Akre, J Arthur, R Bionta, C Bostedt… - nature …, 2010 - nature.com
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 …

High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser covering the 3.5 keV to 14.6 keV range

I Nam, CK Min, B Oh, G Kim, D Na, YJ Suh, H Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) is a promising approach to realize bright, fully
coherent free-electron laser (FEL) sources in the hard X-ray domain that have been a long …

The history of X-ray free-electron lasers

C Pellegrini - The European Physical Journal H, 2012 - Springer
The successful lasing at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory of the Linear Coherent
Light Source (LCLS), the first X-ray free-electron laser (X-ray FEL), in the wavelength range …

Laguerre-gaussian mode laser heater for microbunching instability suppression in free-electron lasers

J Tang, R Lemons, W Liu, S Vetter, T Maxwell… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Microbunching instability (MBI) driven by beam collective effects is known to be detrimental
to high-brightness storage rings, linacs, and free-electron lasers (FELs). One known way to …

Harmonic lasing in x-ray free electron lasers

EA Schneidmiller, MV Yurkov - … review special topics—accelerators and beams, 2012 - APS
Harmonic lasing in a free electron laser with a planar undulator (under the condition that the
fundamental frequency is suppressed) might be a cheap and efficient way of extension of …

Free electron lasers: Present status and future challenges

WA Barletta, J Bisognano, JN Corlett, P Emma… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2010 - Elsevier
With the scientific successes of the soft X-ray FLASH facility in Germany and the recent
spectacular commissioning of the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, free electron lasers …

Bunch shaping in electron linear accelerators

G Ha, KJ Kim, JG Power, Y Sun, P Piot - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Modern electron linear accelerators are often designed to produce smooth bunch
distributions characterized by their macroscopic ensemble-average moments. However, an …

Next generation high brightness electron beams from ultrahigh field cryogenic rf photocathode sources

JB Rosenzweig, A Cahill, V Dolgashev, C Emma… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
Recent studies of the performance of radio-frequency (rf) copper cavities operated at
cryogenic temperatures have shown a dramatic increase in the maximum achievable …