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The free-electron laser is one of the most recent sources of coherent radiation. Its operation was first demonstrated at Stanford, by Madey and co-workers [1], using an electron beam from the Stanford linear superconducting accelerator; the laser wavelength in this experiment was 3.4 μm. Since then, free-electron lasers have been operated at Orsay (using a storage ring, at a laser wavelength tunable between 6350 and 6600 Å)[2], Los Alamos (using a linear accelerator, at wavelengths between 9 and 11 μm) [3a], and the University of California at Santa Barbara (using a Van der Graaf electrostatic accelerator, at a wavelength of 380 μm) [3b]. (A list of proposed experiments may be found in [4]).
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Gea-Banacloche, J., Scully, M.O. (1985). Stimulated Synchrotron Radiation: The Free-Electron Laser. In: Allen, F., Bustamante, C. (eds) Applications of Circularly Polarized Radiation Using Synchrotron and Ordinary Sources. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9229-4_4
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