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Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 69)
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About this book
The development of coherent radiation sources for sub-angstrom wavelengths - i.e. in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray range - is a challenging goal of modern physics. The availability of such sources will have many applications in basic science, technology and medicine and in particular, they may have a revolutionary impact on nuclear and solid state physics, as well as on the life sciences. The present state-of-the-art lasers are capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation from the infrared to the ultraviolet, while free electron lasers (X-FELs) are now entering the soft X-ray region. Moving further, i.e. into the hard X and/or gamma ray band, however, is not possible without new approaches and technologies.
In this book we introduce and discuss one such novel approach -the radiation formed in a Crystalline Undulator - whereby electromagnetic radiation is generated by a bunch of ultra-relativistic particles channeling through a periodically bent crystalline structure. Under certain conditions, such a device can emit intensive spontaneous monochromatic radiation and even reach the coherence of laser light sources.
Readers will be presented with the underlying fundamental physics and be familiarized with the theoretical, experimental and technological advances made during the last one and a half decades in exploring the various features of investigations into crystalline undulators. This research draws upon knowledge from many research fields - such as materials science, beam physics, the physics of radiation, solid state physics and acoustics, to name but a few. Accordingly, much care has been taken by the authors to make the book as self-contained as possible in this respect, so as to also provide a useful introduction to this emerging field to a broad readership of researchers and scientist with various backgrounds.
This new edition has been revised and extended to take recent developments in the field into account.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Channeling and Radiation in Periodically Bent Crystals
Authors: Andrey V. Korol, Andrey V. Solov'yov, Walter Greiner
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54933-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54932-8Published: 27 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50617-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54933-5Published: 13 May 2014
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XI, 284
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 96 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Classical Electrodynamics