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This chapter provides a detailed introduction to the 1D theory of high-gain free electron laser (FEL) and a brief overview of the 3D scaling function for FEL gain. For 1D theory, we start from the resonance condition and energy exchange between electron and radiation field. Their dynamics are then derived as the coupled Maxwell-Vlasov equations using a fluid model. In solving these coupled equations, we introduce some important FEL parameters and concepts, such as the dispersion relation, the FEL parameter ρ, the power gain length \(L_G^{1D}\), the saturation power Ps, and the undulator saturation length Ls. We also discuss two operating modes of FEL, the amplifier and SASE (self-amplified spontaneous emission), as two typical cases of the initial value problem of the coupled Maxwell-Vlasov equations. We also discuss the radiation power, intensity fluctuations, bandwidth, and coherent length for SASE. In the last section, without further derivation, we briefly mention some results from the 3D FEL theory, e.g., the scaled power gain function G, the scaling parameter ρ and D, the energy spread, and the gain length calculation with scaling function.
We assume the readers are familiar with classical mechanics and electrodynamics in the graduate level. Knowledge of integral transform and calculus of residues from mathematical physics are helpful but not essential.
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In reality, the transverse variation of the magnetic field is very important for focusing effects, it determines the electron’s betatron oscillation, but this is ignored in 1D approximation.
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Rigorously, in order to obey the Maxwell’s equation, we need to include higher-order nonlinear terms in the magnetic field, but this is ignored here for the moment.
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He, A., Yang, L., Yu, L. (2020). High-Gain Free-Electron Laser Theory, Introduction. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23201-6_2
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