Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 5, 044701 (2002) [9 pages]Small-angle Thomson scattering of ultrafast laser pulses for bright, sub-100-fs x-ray radiation |
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Yuelin Li, Zhirong Huang, Michael D. Borland, and Stephen Milton
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
Received 13 December 2001; published 5 April 2002
We propose a scheme for bright sub-100-fs x-ray radiation generation using small-angle Thomson scattering. Coupling high-brightness electron bunches with high-power ultrafast laser pulses, radiation with photon energies between 8 and 40 keV can be generated with pulse duration comparable to that of the incoming laser pulse and with peak spectral brightness close to that of the third-generation synchrotron light sources of ∼1020 photons s-1 mm-2 mrad-2 per 10-3 bandwidth. A preliminary dynamic calculation is performed to understand the property of this novel scattering scheme with relativistic laser intensities.
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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRSTAB/v5/e044701
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.5.044701
PACS: 52.38.Ph, 52.59.Px, 41.60.Ap, 41.75.Ht
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