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 …

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 …

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 …

Commissioning the linac coherent light source injector

R Akre, D Dowell, P Emma, J Frisch, S Gilevich… - Physical Review Special …, 2008 - APS
The Linac Coherent Light Source is a SASE x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) project presently
under construction at SLAC [J. Arthur, SLAC-R-593, 2002.]. The injector section, from drive …

Measurements of the linac coherent light source laser heater and its impact<? format?> on the x-ray free-electron laser performance

Z Huang, A Brachmann, FJ Decker, Y Ding… - Physical Review Special …, 2010 - APS
The very bright electron beam required for an x-ray free-electron laser (FEL), such as the
linac coherent light source (LCLS), is susceptible to a microbunching instability in the …

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 …

The SXFEL upgrade: from test facility to user facility

B Liu, C Feng, D Gu, F Gao, H Deng, M Zhang, S Sun… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Shanghai soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility (SXFEL), which is the first X-ray FEL
facility in China, is being constructed in two phases: the test facility (SXFEL-TF) and the user …