Accession Number:

ADA230817

Title:

Free Electron Lasers

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Tang, Cha-Mei

Report Date:

1991-01-09

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

Free electron lasers FELs comprised a class of potentially efficient devices capable of generating high quality coherent radiation, continuously tunable from the microwave region of the x-ray region, at high average andor high peak power. A short description of the physics of the FEL and its applications are described in this paper. The FEL is now becoming a research tool rather than a pure research topic. The light properties at the currently funded FEL user facilities are listed.

Descriptors:

• *FREE ELECTRON LASERS
• FACILITIES
• LIGHT
• EFFICIENCY
• MICROWAVES
• COHERENT RADIATION
• USER NEEDS
• REGIONS
• PEAK POWER
• PURITY
• PHYSICS
• HIGH POWER
• X RAYS

Subject Categories:

• Lasers and Masers

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE