Theory and design of a photoinjector-driven chirped pulse free-electron maser

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 781-795

  Le Sage, Gregory P ^a,b   Feng, Helena X C ^a,b   Laurent, Lisa L ^a,b   Hartemann, F V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MASERS; PHOTOCATHODES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

CHIRPED PULSE FREE ELECTRON MASER; CHIRPED PULSE LASER AMPLIFIER; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOINJECTOR;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 0030164121     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.533080     Document Type: Article

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