%0 Book Section
%A Schmüser, Peter
%A Dohlus, Martin
%A Rossbach, Jörg
%A Behrens, Christopher
%T X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Technical Realization and Experimental Results
%V 258
%@ 0081-3869
%C Cham
%I Springer International Publishing
%M PUBDB-2016-02398
%@ 978-3-319-04080-6
%B Springer tracts in modern physics
%P 165 - 182
%D 2014
%Z (c) Springer International Publishing Switzerland. No post referee full text available.
%< Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime
%X The physical and technological challenges of FELs become quite demanding with decreasing wavelength, but in recent years X-ray FELs with wavelengths in the Ångstrøm regime (1 Å = 0.1 nm =10<sup>−10</sup>m) have become a reality with the successful commissioning and operation of the “Linac Coherent Light Source” LCLS [1], the world’s first FEL providing atomic resolution. In this chapter, we discuss the most important aspects and challenges of X-ray FELs and present some of the excellent experimental results achieved at LCLS and the second facility of this kind, the “Spring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron LAser” SACLA [2]. Low-gain FEL oscillators in the X-ray regime have been proposed [3] but not yet demonstrated, they are not considered here. Comprehensive information and technical details on X-ray FELs are found in the design reports of LCLS [4] and the European XFEL [5]. Further valuable information is presented in a review article by Huang and Kim [6].
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%R 10.1007/978-3-319-04081-3_9
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/300778