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Technical approaches for high-average-power free-electron lasers

George R. Neil and Lia Merminga

George R. Neil and Lia Merminga

  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Newport News, Virginia 23606

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 685 – Published 1 July, 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.74.685

Abstract

Free-electron-laser (FEL) oscillators have only recently achieved their original promise as producers of high-power, short-wavelength, tunable radiation. Room-temperature accelerator systems have generally had limited duty factor due to excessive Ohmic losses on cavity walls. The application of superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) technology has now permitted an increase by more than two orders of magnitude in FEL average power due just to increased duty factor in continuous-wave operation. A concurrent technical development that leveraged the high efficiency of SRF linacs was the demonstration of beam energy recovery while lasing. This leads to high overall efficiency and scales favorably to systems with even higher average power. This paper will discuss the issues relating to high-average-power light sources. The planned and demonstrated performance of several FEL facilities will illustrate the sizable advantages that superconducting radio frequency offers for high average flux and output multiplexing for several simultaneous users. An important new class of light sources, energy-recovering linacs, will be introduced.

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