Title

A Compact, Bright And Tunable Cw Source Of Soft X-Rays

Abstract

A bright, CW, tunable source of soft X-rays is proposed. The X-rays are obtained from the Compton backscattering of intense infrared laser radiation from a high quality electron beam. The incident infrared radiation is the intracavity beam in a high power Nd:YLF laser. This radiation is scatted from an relativistic electron beam generated by electrostatic accelerators. Such an X-ray source would constitute a low cost compact alternative to the more traditional synchrotron rings. Narrow bandwidth X-ray radiation can be obtained with the use of proper aperturing without the necessity of monochromators. Analytic expressions of the frequency spectrum of the radiation through a certain aperture, are given. These expressions are valid for small undulator parameter and large number of periods. © 1995.

Publication Date

4-11-1995

Publication Title

Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A

Volume

358

Issue

1-3

Number of Pages

20-23

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(94)01497-3

Socpus ID

4243582807 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/4243582807

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