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.

ORCID iDs

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
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    21 March 2019
    Published
    20 March 2019
    Accepted
    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:29 Nov 2021 01:36
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/68019
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