FEL 2004 Special Edition

A collection of articles that expand upon original research presented at the 26th International Free Electron Laser Conference (August 29 - September 3, 2004, Trieste, Italy), Luca Giannessi, Special Editor. View Original Announcement

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FEL2004 Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Stability of a short Rayleigh length laser resonator
P. P. Crooker, J. Blau, and W. B. Colson
Published 22 April 2005 (6 pages)
040703 [View PDF (547 kB) , One-column PDF (956 kB), or gzip'ed PS (692 kB) ]

Characterization of laser-electron interaction at the BESSY II femtoslicing source
K. Holldack, T. Kachel, S. Khan, R. Mitzner, and T. Quast
Published 25 April 2005 (7 pages)
040704 [View PDF (504 kB) , One-column PDF (513 kB), or gzip'ed PS (512 kB) ]

Improving selectivity of free electron maser with 1D Bragg resonator using coupling of propagating and trapped waves
N. S. Ginzburg, A. M. Malkin, N. Yu. Peskov, A. S. Sergeev, A. K. Kaminsky, S. N. Sedykh, E. A. Perelshtein, A. P. Sergeev, and A. V. Elzhov
Published 28 April 2005 (5 pages)
040705 [View PDF (276 kB) , One-column PDF (289 kB), or gzip'ed PS (287 kB) ]

Optical klystron and harmonic generation free electron laser
Qika Jia
Published 20 June 2005 (6 pages)
060701 [View PDF (126 kB) , One-column PDF (127 kB), or gzip'ed PS (134 kB) ]

Coherence limits and chirp control in long pulse free electron laser oscillator
Y. Socol, A. Gover, A. Eliran, M. Volshonok, Y. Pinhasi, B. Kapilevich, A. Yahalom, Y. Lurie, M. Kanter, M. Einat, and B. Litvak
Published 31 August 2005 (9 pages)
080701 [View PDF (1145 kB) , One-column PDF (1202 kB), or gzip'ed PS (14172 kB) ]

Analytical solution for phase space evolution of electrons operating in a self-amplified spontaneous emission free electron laser
Nobuyuki Nishimori
Published 11 October 2005 (9 pages)
100701 [View PDF (607 kB) , One-column PDF (619 kB), or gzip'ed PS (474 kB) ]

Relativistic, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

First observations and suppression of multipass, multibunch beam breakup in the Jefferson Laboratory free electron laser upgrade
Christopher D. Tennant, Kevin B. Beard, David R. Douglas, Kevin C. Jordan, Lia Merminga, Eduard G. Pozdeyev, and Todd I. Smith
Published 29 July 2005 (9 pages)
074403 [View PDF (824 kB) , One-column PDF (927 kB), or gzip'ed PS (858 kB) ]