Free electron lasers [proceedings of the seventh Course on Physics and Technology of Free Electron Lasers of the International School of Quantum Electronics, held August 17-29, 1980, in Erice, Sicily, Italy

The volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Course on Physics and Technology of Free Electron Lasers of the International School of Quantum Electronics, which was held in Erice (Italy) from 17 to 29 August 1980, under the auspices of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The level of this Course was much closer to a workshop than to a school, and "Advances in Free Electron Lasers" might have been an appropriate title. Many of the world's leading scientists in the field (among them, the inventor of FEL, J. M. J. Madey) were brought together to review the accomplishments of FEL experiments, as well various trends in FEL theory. In editing this material we did not modify the original manu­ scripts except to assist in uniformity of style. The papers. are presented without reference to the chronology of the Course but in the following topical arrangement: A. "Fundamentals of free electron lasers," a group of tutorial papers; B. "Free electron lasers operating in the Compton regime," where theories and experiments of FELs based on Compton scattering are reviewed; C. "Free electron lasers operating in the Raman regime," a dis­ cussion of FELs based on Raman scattering; D. "Optical klystrons," where the possibility of this class of FEL is discussed from a theoretical viewpoint; E. Front Matter....Pages i-ix A Unified Linear Formulation and the Operating Parameters of Cerenkov-Smith-Purcell, Bremsstrahlung and Compton Scattering Free Electron Lasers....Pages 1-89 Physics of the Free Electron Laser....Pages 91-119 Classical Trajectories and Coherent States of a Free Electron Laser....Pages 121-138 On the Theory of the Free Electron Laser....Pages 139-173 Pulse Propagation and Laser Lethargy in the Free-Electron Laser....Pages 175-188 Free Electron Laser Wave and Particle Dynamics....Pages 189-209 Analysis of the Single Pass Free Electron Laser: The Multimode Small Signal Regime....Pages 211-227 The Non-Linear Theory of the Free Electron Laser with Transverse Dimensional Effects....Pages 229-242 A Three Dimensional Calculation of Electron Energy Loss in a Variable Parameter Free-Electron Laser....Pages 243-261 An Experiment on Free Electron Laser Efficiency Enhancement with a Variable Wiggler....Pages 263-276 FEL Development Program at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory....Pages 277-284 FELIX — A Proposed Experimental Facility for Free Electron Laser Investigations....Pages 285-294 The FEL — Microtron Activity at the C.N.E.N. Frascati Center....Pages 295-309 Optimization of a Free Electron Laser for Far Infrared....Pages 311-320 The UCSB Free Electron Laser Experimental Program....Pages 321-330 Storage Ring Operation of the Free Electron Laser....Pages 331-411 Gain Expanded Free Electron Lasers....Pages 413-424 Cancellation of Transverse Excitation in Gain Expanded Free Electron Lasers....Pages 425-466 An Introduction to the Theory of the Isochronous Storage Ring Laser....Pages 467-480 FEL Activity in Frascati INFN National Laboratories....Pages 481-500 High-Gain Millimeter and Submillimeter Free Electron Lasers....Pages 501-522 Free Electron Lasers Based Upon Stimulated Raman Backstattering: A Survey....Pages 523-539 A Free Electron Laser Experiment....Pages 541-555 The Optical Klystron for Coherent X-Ray Generation....Pages 557-569 Coherent Emission from a Bunched Electron Beam in a Wiggler....Pages 571-596 Fundamentals of Accelerators for Single-Pass Free Electron Lasers....Pages 597-616 Electrostatic Accelerator Free Electron Lasers....Pages 617-631 Periodic Magnets for Free Electron Lasers....Pages 633-644 Technical Problems in the Construction of Wigglers and Undulators for Free Electron Lasers....Pages 645-668 Some Potential Applications of Free Electron Lasers to Photochemistry....Pages 669-684 Back Matter....Pages 685-700