Compton sources of electromagnetic radiation

GA Krafft, G Priebe - Reviews of Accelerator Science and …, 2010 - World Scientific
When a relativistic electron beam interacts with a high-field laser beam, intense and highly
collimated electromagnetic radiation will be generated through Compton scattering. Through …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art of high-flux Compton/Thomson x-rays sources

V Petrillo, I Drebot, M Ruijter, S Samsam, A Bacci… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present the generalities of the Compton interaction process; we analyse the
different paradigms of Inverse Compton Sources, implemented or in commissioning phase …

Observation of redshifting and harmonic radiation in inverse Compton scattering

Y Sakai, I Pogorelsky, O Williams, F O'Shea… - Physical Review Special …, 2015 - APS
Inverse Compton scattering of laser photons by ultrarelativistic electron beam provides
polarized x-to γ-ray pulses due to the Doppler blueshifting. Nonlinear electrodynamics in the …

[HTML][HTML] Hard X-ray inverse Compton scattering at photon energy of 87.5 keV

Y Sakai, M Babzien, M Fedurin, K Kusche… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Production of hard X-ray via inverse Compton scattering at photon energies below 100 keV
range aimed at potential applications in medicine and material research is reported …

Electron beam characterization through -edge filtering of laser Compton-scattered x rays

Y Hwang, HH Effarah, T Tajima, CPJ Barty… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2023 - APS
A novel method of measuring an electron beam's energy spectrum and divergence using
Compton-scattered x rays created by colliding a laser with an electron beam has been …

Single shot, double differential spectral measurements of inverse Compton scattering in the nonlinear regime

Y Sakai, I Gadjev, P Hoang, N Majernik, A Nause… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2017 - APS
Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique mechanism for producing fast pulses—
picosecond and below—of bright photons, ranging from x to γ rays. These nominally narrow …

Inverse Compton radiation: a novel x-ray source for K-edge subtraction angiography?

G Paternò, P Cardarelli, M Gambaccini… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Coronary angiography is clinically used worldwide to diagnose diseases of coronary
arteries. Despite its effectiveness, this technique is quite invasive and it is associated with …

[HTML][HTML] High duty cycle inverse Compton scattering X-ray source

A Ovodenko, R Agustsson, M Babzien… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) is an emerging compact X-ray source technology, where
the small source size and high spectral brightness are of interest for multitude of …

[HTML][HTML] Spectroscopic imaging at compact inverse Compton X-ray sources

S Kulpe, M Dierolf, B Günther, J Brantl, M Busse… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
While K-edge subtraction (KES) imaging is a commonly applied technique at synchrotron
sources, the application of this imaging method in clinical imaging is limited although results …

Diffraction based method to reconstruct the spectrum of the Thomson scattering x-ray source

Z Chi, L Yan, Z Zhang, Z Zhou, L Zheng… - Review of Scientific …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
As Thomson scattering x-ray sources based on the collision of intense laser and relativistic
electrons have drawn much attention in various scientific fields, there is an increasing …