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Unstable Resonators For The Free-Electron Laser
Author(s): Gerald T. Moore
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Paper Abstract

Axisymmetric cw multi-pass diffractive numerical calculations for the free-electron laser (FEL) are presented. The output is extracted around the edge of one mirror in a symmetric resonator of low Fresnel number. Excellent beam quality and small mode area inside the wiggler are obtained when the resonator is in a negative-branch unstable configuration. We suggest the use of a deformable mirror for gain-switching a tapered-wiggler FEL.

Paper Details

Date Published: 16 February 1984
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 0453, Free-Electron Generators of Coherent Radiation, (16 February 1984); doi: 10.1117/12.947104
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Gerald T. Moore, University of New Mexico (United States)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0453:
Free-Electron Generators of Coherent Radiation
Charles A. Brau; Stephen F. Jacobs; Marlan O. Scully, Editor(s)

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