Conveners
FEL Prize Talks
- Bruce Carlsten (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Storage-ring based free-electron lasers (FELs) are a eneration of FELs that predate the current high-gain, single-pass FELs driven by advanced linear accelerators. The Duke FEL is such an oscillator FEL that has provided a rich environment for light source research. In this talk, we will recount the diverse territories explored using this FEL. The Duke FEL has allowed us to produce coherent...
In this talk I will discuss some of the colleagues I have had the pleasure of working with and some of the research we have carried out in the field of Free Electron Lasers. In particular, I will focus on superradiance and give a 1-dimensional description of the highly non-linear saturation process of a single superradiant spike. The sub-wavelength pulse structures that evolve and the very...
In this prize talk, I will present recent advancements in beam shaping techniques that have enabled advanced operational modes in free-electron lasers (FELs). The discussion will cover key developments, including beam current profile shaping for LCLS and LCLS-II, and the "two-bunch" scheme for generating two-color FELs and THz-FEL pulses. Additionally, I will delve into the methods of cathode...
The development of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) marks a major leap forward in exploring matter at atomic and subatomic scales. Recently, high-repetition-rate XFELs based on superconducting linacs have emerged as a leading frontier in the field, with the potential to greatly expand the range of FEL applications. However, these advancements also present substantial challenges in machine...
