Free Electron Laser

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Free Electron Laser research and applications.

INTRODUCTION

A Free Electron Laser generates tunable, coherent, high power radiation, currently spanning wavelengths from millimeter to x-ray. It can have the optical properties characteristic of conventional lasers such as high spatial coherence and a near diffraction limited radiation beam. It differs from conventional lasers in using a relativistic electron beam as its lasing medium, as opposed to bound atomic or molecular states, hence the term free-electron.

FEL TABLE          NEWS

FREE ELECTRON LASER RELATED LINKS:

Operating Facilities for Scientific Research with FELs

• SACLA x-ray FEL - Riken (Japan)
• SLAC SSRL x-ray FEL - LCLS (US)
• FLASH VUV FEL - DESY (Germany)
• FERMI FEL at Elettra/Trieste (Italy)
• iFEL (Osaka, Japan)
• FELIX - Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
• Duke University Free electron Laser Laboratory (US)
• Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser Center (US)
• CLIO - LCP (Orsay, France)
• Jefferson Lab (US)
• FEL-SUT - Science University of Tokyo (Japan)
• UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (US)
• ELBE FEL - HZDR (Germany)
• ENEA Compact FEL - (Frascati, Italy)

Operating Free Electron Lasers

• SACLA x-ray FEL - Riken (Japan)
• SLAC SSRL x-ray FEL - LCLS (US)
• FLASH VUV/Xray FEL - DESY (Germany)
• FERMI FEL at Elettra, Trieste (Italy)
• High-gain Harmonic Generation FEL, ATF NSLS, Brookhaven, NY (US)
• Duke University Free Electron Laser Laboratory (US)
• Photon Storage Ring - Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
• FLARE (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
• iFEL (Osaka, Japan)
• FHI FEL - Fritz-Haber Institute (Berlin, Germany)
• Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser Center (US)
• FELIX - Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
• CLIO - LCP (Orsay, France)
• Jefferson Lab Free Electron Laser Program (US)
• ENEA Compact FEL - (Frascati, Italy)
• FEL-SUT - Science University of Tokyo (Japan)
• IR-FEL - S-DALINAC (Darmstadt, Germany)
• Beijing Free Electron Laser (China)
• ELBE FEL - HZDR (Germany)
• The UCSB Free Electron Lasers (US)
• NovoFEL - Budker Institute - SSRC (Russia)
• Tel Aviv University FEL (Israel)
  note: list is approximately ordered by wavelength

FELs Under Development

• FELiChEM (China)
• European X-ray FEL (Germany)
• TARLA FEL, Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory at Ankara (Turkey)
• SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland)
• Institute for Plasma Research (India)
• LEUTL APS, Argonne National Lab (US)
• Center for Advanced Technology (India)
• University of Hawaii (US)
• UCLA Particle Beam Physics Lab
• Osaka University - ISIR (Japan)
• Photonic FEL (Netherlands)

Proposed FELS

• NGLS - Lawrence Berkeley Lab (US)
• WIFEL - University of Wisconsin, Madison (US)
• SPARC Project - INFN (Italy)
• Daresbury 4GLS (UK)

Conferences & Meetings

• 39th International FEL Conference, University of Hamburg (Germany) (26-30 Aug-19)
• 38th International FEL Conference, LANL, Santa Fe, New Mexico (US) (20-25 Aug-17)( past)
• 37th International FEL Conference, KAERI and PAL., Daejeon (Korea) (23-28 Aug-15)( past)
• Workshop on Science and Technology of FELs, DAVV (Indore, India) (4-6 Dec-14)( past)
• 36th International FEL Conference, Paul Scherrer Inst., Basel (Switzerland) (25-29 Aug-14)( past)
• 35th International FEL Conference, New York (US) (25-31 Aug-13)( past)
• 34th International FEL Conference, Nara (Japan) (26-31 Aug-12)( past)
• ICFA Workshop on Future Light Sources, Newport News, VA (US) (5-9 - Mar-12)( past)
• Workshop on IR Microscopy & Spectroscopy with Accelerator based Sources, Trieste (Italy) (4-8 - Sep-11)( past)
• 33d International FEL Conference, SINAP, Shanghai (China) (22-26 Aug-11)( past)
• Advanced High-Power Lasers, DEPS, Santa Fe, NM (US) (6-9 Jun-11)( past)
• Workshop on Biology with FELs, LBNL, Berkeley, CA (US) (18-21 Jan-11)( past)
• 32th International FEL Conference, Maxlab (Sweden) (23-27 Aug-10)( past)
• 31th International FEL Conference, STFC Daresbury, Liverpool (UK) (23-28 Aug-09)( past)
• 30th International FEL Conference, POSTECH, Gyeongju (Korea) (24-29 Aug-08)( past)
• Frontiers in FEL Physics Workshop, INFN, Elba Island (Italy) (8-14 Sep-07)( past)
• 29th International FEL Conference, Budker INP (Russia) (26-31 Aug-07)( past)
• 28th International FEL Conference, BESSY & FZ Rossendorf (Germany) (27-Aug-1-Sep-06)( past)
• 27th International FEL Conference, SLAC/Stanford Univ. (US) (21-26-Aug-05)( past)
• 26th International FEL Conference, ELETTRA, Trieste (Italy) (29-Aug - 3-Sep-04)( past)
• 25th International FEL Conference, JAERI, Tsukuba (Japan) (8,12-Sep-03)( past)
• Workshop on IR Microscopy & Spectroscopy with Accelerator based Sources, Lake Tahoe (US) (8-11 - Jul-03)( past)
• 24th International FEL Conference, Argonne National Lab (US) (9,13-Sep-02)( past)
• 24th Advanced ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop on Future Light Sources (Japan) (1-4 -May-02)( past)
• 23rd International FEL Conference, Darmstadt (Germany) (20,25-Aug-01)( past)
• 2nd FEL Workshop - Methods and Instrumentation - SLAC (US) (1-2 - Mar-01)( past)
• Physics of and Science with the X-Ray FEL (20th ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop), Arcidosso (Italy) (11,15-Sep-00)( past)summary
• 22nd International FEL Conference - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (US) (14,18-Aug-00)( past)
• 21th International FEL Conference - DESY, Hamburg, Germany (23,28-Aug-99)( past)
• Towards X-Ray Free Electron Lasers (workshop) - Garda Lake, Italy (2,7-Jun-97)( past)
• 18th International FEL Conference and Users Workshop, Rome, Italy (26,31-Aug-96) - Conclusion

FEL Related Research Activities

• Pan-Ocean Environment & Atmospheric Research Lab - Hawaii (US)
• Center for Beam Physics - LBL (US)
• Naval Postgraduate School FEL Research (US)
• Millimeter Wave Technology Group - UC-Davis (US)
• Kyoto University - Advanced Energy Division (Japan)
• RELD Group, University of Strathclyde - (Scotland)

Industrial FEL Applications / Sources

• Babcock Noell - Undulators, Wigglers (Germany)
• Advanced Design Consulting Inc. - Undulators, Wigglers (US)
• Industrial Applications (Jefferson Labs) (US)
• MAIFEL (Europe)
• STI Optronics - Undulators/Wigglers (US)
• Advanced Energy Systems (US)

Organizations

• EuroFEL Consortium (Europe)
• I3/IA-SFS Integrating Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science (Europe)

Educational Activities

• NRC/NRL Research Associateship Program (US)

Documents

• NAS Report: Free Electron Lasers and Other Advanced Sources of Light (US)