2017/03/20 by Zhinan Zeng, Ruxin Li, Zeng, Zhinan +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Optics (physics.optics) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.06972
openalex publication_date 2017/03/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The laser-plasma accelerator has attracted great interest for constituting an alternative in the production of the relativistic electron beams of high peak current. But the generated electron beam has poor monochrome and emittance, which make it difficult to produce high brightness radiation. Here we propose a compact flexible laser undulator based on ponderomotive force to constitute a millimeter-sized synchrotron radiation source of X-ray. We demonstrate that it can produce bright radiation with tens of keV energies. This opens a new path to compact synchrotron source with high power laser.