Towards single-cycle attosecond light from accelerators

Goryashko, Vitaliy and Shamuilov, Georgii and Salén, Peter and Dunning, David and Thompson, Neil and McNeil, Brian W. J. (2019) Towards single-cycle attosecond light from accelerators. Accelerating News, 28.

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    Abstract

    The Free-Electron Laser (FEL) is a cutting-edge, accelerator-based instrument that has the potential to provide simultaneous access to the spatial and temporal resolution of the atomic world. In a FEL, ultra-short electron bunches from an accelerator are passed through a long undulator magnet to generate coherent light. Recently, scientists from SLAC demonstrated the first generation of attosecond hard X-ray pulses, using the Linac Coherent Light Source. Now, as described in the review article by Alan Mak et al. [1], researchers are proposing developments that will make the FEL a fully coherent, singlecycle (attosecond) X-ray laser. The new concepts build upon a strong nexus between linear accelerators, FELs and quantum lasers, to produce extreme attosecond pulses with controllable waveforms.

    Author(s):Goryashko, Vitaliy, Shamuilov, Georgii, Salén, Peter, Dunning, David, Thompson, Neil and McNeil, Brian W. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7267-611X
    Item type:Article
    ID code:68019
    Keywords:attosecond light lasers, laser technology, x-ray lasers, free electron laser, free electron laser accelerators, quantum lasers, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:23 May 2019 12:03
    Last modified:13 Dec 2019 05:12
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/68019
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