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 visible and potentially ultraviolet 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

• FLASH VUV FEL - DESY (Germany)
• European UV/VUV FEL at Elettra/Trieste (Italy)
• iFEL (Osaka, Japan)
• Duke University Free electron Laser Laboratory (US)
• Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser Center (US)
• FELIX - FOM (Rijnhuizen, Netherlands)
• Stanford Picosecond FEL Center (US)
• CLIO - LCP (Orsay, France)
• Jefferson Lab (US)
• FEL-SUT - Science University of Tokyo (Japan)
• UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (US)
• FELBE FEL - FZR (Germany)
• ENEA Compact FEL - (Frascati, Italy)

Operating Free Electron Lasers

• FLASH VUV/Xray FEL - DESY (Germany)
• SCSS SPring-8 Compact VUV/Xray FEL (Japan)
• European UV/VUV FEL at Elettra, Trieste (Italy)
• Source Development Laboratory, NSLS, Brookhaven, NY (US)
• Duke University Free Electron Laser Laboratory (US)
• Photon Storage Ring - Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
• iFEL (Osaka, Japan)
• Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser Center (US)
• FELIX - FOM (Rijnhuizen, Netherlands)
• Stanford Picosecond FEL Center (US)
• 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)
• FELBE FEL - FZR (Germany)
• The UCSB Free Electron Lasers (US)
• Tel Aviv University FEL (Israel)
  note: list is approximately ordered by wavelength

FELs Under Development

• SLAC SSRL x-ray FEL - LCLS (US)
• European X-ray FEL, DESY (Germany)
• FERMI project at ELETTRA (Italy)
• Institute for Plasma Research (India)
• BESSY FEL (Germany)
• LEUTL APS, Argonne National Lab (US)
• Center for Advanced Technology (India)
• University of Maryland - MIRFEL (US)
• University of Hawaii (US)
• Brookhaven - Accelerator Test Facility FELs (US)
• UCLA Particle Beam Physics Lab
• Osaka University - ISIR (Japan)
• University of Twente Cerenkov FEL (Netherlands)

Proposed FELS

• ARC-EN-CIEL (France)
• WIFEL - University of Wisconsin, Madison (US)
• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (US)
• SPARC Project - INFN (Italy)
• Daresbury 4GLS (UK)
• MIT Bates Lab X-Ray FEL (US)

Conferences & Meetings

• 30th International FEL Conference, POSTECH, Gyeongju (Korea) (24-29 Aug-08)
• 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)
• Workshop on IR Microscopy & Spectroscopy with Accelerator based Sources (Rathen, Germany) (26-30 - Jun-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)
• Workshop on Laser Issues for Electron RF Photoinjectors (US) (23,25-Oct-02)( 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)
• Maxlab/Desy workshop on Current Development of Free Electron Lasers, Lund, Sweden (18,19-Oct-98)( 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
• Report from the workshop "Scientific case for an infrared FEL at maxlab (26,27-Mar-96)"

FEL Related Research Activities

• Pan-Ocean Environment & Atmospheric Research Lab - Hawaii (US)
• Center for Beam Physics - LBL (US)
• Millimeter Wave Technology Group - UC-Davis (US)
• Columbia University Free Electron Laser Research (US)
• University of Liverpool (UK)
• Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Idaho State University (US)
• Kyoto University - Advanced Energy Division (Japan)
• RELD Group, University of Strathclyde - (Scotland)

Industrial FEL Applications / Sources

• Advanced Design Consulting Inc. - Undulators, Wigglers (US)
• Industrial FEL Applications - MITI (Japan)
• Laser Processing Consortium (Jefferson Labs) (US)
• EU Brite project (Europe)
• STI Optronics - Undulators/Wigglers (US)
• Advanced Energy Systems (US)

Organizations

• I3/IA-SFS Integrating Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science (Europe)
• The European Round Table on Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers

Educational Activities

• Naval Postgraduate School - Monterey (US)
• NRC/NRL Research Associateship Program (US)

Documents

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