U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Course Materials - Texas A&M University online - January 2021
VUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers
course given by Dinh Nguyen, SLAC National Accelerator Lab; Petr Anisimov, Los Alamos National Lab; Nicole Neveu, SLAC National Accelerator Lab
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Course Syllabus & Introduction
Lectures given by Dinh Nguyen:
Lecture 1 - Introduction, Electron Motions in an Undulator, Undulator Radiation & FEL
Lecture 2 - SASE & Theory
Lecture 3 - Self-Seeding, Regenerative Amplifier FEL & XFELO
Lecture 4 - Harmonic Generation, HGHG & EEHG
Lecture 5 - Photoinjectors, Emittance Revisited, Photoinjector Design & Optimization
Lecture 6 - Bunch Compressor, CSR, uBi & Laser Heater
Lectures given by Petr Anisimov:
SimLecture 1 - Introduction to FEL Simulations
SimLecture 2 - Time-independent 3D FEL Simulations
SimLecture 3 - Genesis 1.3
Lectures given by Nicole Neveu:
Lecture 5.1 - Optimization and Beam Shaping
Homework:
Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Homework 4
Computer Labs
https://github.com/uspas/FEL2021
Class Recordings