Principles of Free-Electron Lasers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 1-39

3. The Wiggler Field and Electron Dynamics

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 40-74

4. Incoherent Undulator Radiation

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 75-83

5. Coherent Emission: Linear Theory

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 84-152

6. Coherent Emission: Nonlinear Theory

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 153-244

7. Sideband Instabilities

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 245-255

8. Coherent Harmonic Radiation

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 256-281

9. Optical Guiding

   • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

   Pages 282-306

10. Oscillator Configurations

    • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

    Pages 307-405

11. Electromagnetic-wave Wigglers

    • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

    Pages 406-420

12. Chaos in Free-Electron Lasers

    • H. P. Freund, T. M. Antonsen Jr.

    Pages 421-441

13. Back Matter

    Pages 443-460

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At the time that we decided to begin work on this book, several other volumes on the free-electron laser had either been published or were in press. The earliest work of which we were aware was published in 1985 by Dr T. C. Marshall of Columbia University [1]. This book dealt with the full range of research on free-electron lasers, including an overview of the extant experiments. However, the field has matured a great deal since that time and, in our judgement, the time was ripe for a more extensive work which includes the most recent advances in the field. The fundamental work in this field has largely been approached from two distinct and, unfortunately, separate viewpoints. On the one hand, free-electron lasers at sub-millimetre and longer wavelengths driven by low-energy and high-current electron beams have been pursued by the plasma physics and microwave tube communities. This work has confined itself largely to the high-gain regimes in which collective effects may play an important role. On the other hand, short-wavelength free-electron lasers in the infrared and optical regimes have been pursued by the accelerator and laser physics community. Due to the high-energy and low-current electron beams appropriate to this spectral range, these experiments have operated largely in the low-gain single-particle regimes. The most recent books published on the free-electron laser by Dr C. A.

• Plasma
• chaos
• dynamics
• electromagnetic
• electron
• energy
• experiment
• laser
• laser physics
• physics
• plasma physics
• radiation
• spectra

• Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, USA

  H. P. Freund

• University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  T. M. Antonsen

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