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The principle of the Free-Electron Laser (FEL) was invented by John Madey in 1971 [1]. The first FEL, operating in the infrared at a wavelength of 12 μm, was built at Stanford University in the 1970s by Madey and coworkers [2, 3]. For many years FELs have played a marginal role in comparison with conventional lasers except at microwave and infrared wavelengths. Only in recent years it has become clear that these devices have the potential of becoming exceedingly powerful light sources in the X-ray regime [4, 5, 6]. The ultraviolet and soft X-ray free-electron laser facility FLASH in Hamburg has been playing a pioneering role in the development of X-ray FELs.
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Schmüser, P., Dohlus, M., Dohlus, J. (2008). Introduction. In: Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79572-8_1
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