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Progress and Prospects of a Compton X-ray Source Driven by a High-Power CO2 Laser

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X-Ray Lasers 2014

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X-ray sources based on inverse Compton scattering provide high peak-brightness combined with their well-controlled beam properties. We review recent progress in three research areas: Demonstrating the source’s spatial coherence, so leading to single-shot, ultra-fast, phase-contrast tomography; high-average-brightness intra-cavity Compton source; and, exploring the relativistic regimes of electron oscillation within the laser field that produces multiple Compton harmonics. Next-generation Compton sources most likely will utilize all-optical schemes in which lasers serving as a virtual wiggler simultaneously will drive an electron beam from a plasma-wakefield accelerator. We address the possibility of reaching full coherency of all-optical Compton sources, analogous to free-electron lasers.

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  1. Accelerator Test Facility, Collider Accelerator Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11973, Upton, NY, US

    I.V. Pogorelsky

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  1. College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    Jorge Rocca

  2. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    Carmen Menoni

  3. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    Mario Marconi

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Pogorelsky, I. (2016). Progress and Prospects of a Compton X-ray Source Driven by a High-Power CO2 Laser. In: Rocca, J., Menoni, C., Marconi, M. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2014. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19521-6_17

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