Free Electron Lasers 1997

Preface. Part I. (published as a special issue of Nuclear Instruments and Methods A vol. 407/1-3.) Sections: I. FEL price talk and new lasings. II. Theory and modeling of FELs. III. Experiments in progress. IV. Storage-ring FELs. V. SASE and high-gain short-wavelength FELs. VI. Accelerator technology for FELS. VII. Optics and undulator technology. VIII. New concepts and trends. IX. Applications. Part II. Study of detuning effect in FIR FEL oscillator with Maxwell-Lorentz coupled 1-D equations (S.K. Kim et al.). Simulation of a regenerative MW FEL amplifier (R.T. Nguyen et al.). High power free-electron laser with narrow line-width generated from a MOPA (X. Shu). The features of CAEP FIR-FEL oscillator with strip gratings resonator (Y. Jiang). Gain of free electron laser for a combined helical wiggler with an axial guide magnetic field near magnetoresonance (J. Yu). Far infrared free electron laser efficiency enhancement with reverse tapering waveguide (E. Fu, S. Hu). Free electron laser saturated regime, cavity and energy modulation (G. Dattoli). Large harmonic radiation by post-accelerating the bunched electron beam (Y. Yang, W. Ding). Simulation of an infrared free electron laser on Tohoku Linac (B. Feng et al.). Michelson resonator for suppression of chaotic lasing in short-pulse FEL oscillators (R. Hajima, S. Kondo). Simulations of the LANL regenerative amplifier FEL (M. Kesselring et al.). Spontaneous emission in the Twente Raman Free-Electron laser (P. Zambon, P.J.M. van der Slot, W.J. Witteman). A tapered wiggler with pre-increased magnetic field (Y. Huang, M.C. Wang, Z.J. Wang). Profiling simulations of electron vs. X-ray beams in an FEL using a novel diffractive scanning wire geometry (R. Tatchyn). Tunable coherent radiation of ultra-narrow bandwidth with a short-pulse FEL (H.H. Weits, D. Oepts). A far infrared free electron laser with wavelength of 500-1000 μ (K.-S. Hu et al.). Electron bunch phase stability and optical interpulse coherence in FELIX (D. Oepts, H.H. Weits). Status report on Jefferson Lab's high-power infrared free-electron laser (C.L. Bohn). Beating the Fourier transform limit with an FEL (T.I. Smith). Cavity losses and extraction efficiencies in a short-pulse infrared free-electron laser (A.M. MacLeod et al.). Experimental study of Smith-Purcell free electron laser (T. Mizuno et al.). Recent progresses and preliminary results of the quasi-CW or long-pulse operation in the JAERI superconducting rf linac-based FEL (E.J. Minehara et al.). Operations and reliability upgrades to the Vanderbilt free-electron laser (W.E. Gabella). Controlling cavity detuning in free-electron lasers (S.-B. Song et al.). The status of storage-ring FEL project in NSRL (D. He et al.). Numerical simulation of the harmonic generation in the optical klystron of NSRL (C. Diao et al.). A study of a storage ring free electron laser at Tohoku University (B. Feng et al.). Novel undulator for synchrotron radiation and FEL (G. Lee, D. He). Efficiency increasing of SASE mode FEL induced by slippage compensation (A.A. Varfolomeev, T.V. Yarovoi). Application of Fourier spectroscopy in numerical simulations for precise reconstruction of the radiation spectrum from SASE FEL (E.L. Saldin, E.A. Schneidmiller, M.V. Yurkov). PTwo-stage SASE FEL as fully coherent X-ray laser (J. Feldhaus et al.). Preliminary tests of the optical diagnostics for the APS low-energy undulator test line particle beam (A.H. Lumpkin et al.). The Linac coherent light source project at SLAC (V.K. Bharadwaj). Numerical study of performance limitations of X-ray free electron laser operation due to quantum fluctuation of undulator radiation (S. Reiche et al.). High brightness photoinjector development at the SLAC Gun Test Facility (J.F. Schmerge et al.). Experimental results from a DC photocathode electron gun for an IR FEL (D. Kehne et al.). Progress on the study of self-interaction of a bunch in a bend (R. Li, C.L. Bohn, J.J. Bisognano).