Putting Free-Electron Lasers to Work
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 55 (1), 35-41
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1457263
Abstract
By making a relativistic electron beam wiggle its way through an array of magnets, one can generate intense coherent light with wavelengths tunable from centimeters to angstroms.Keywords
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