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Experiments at Stanford approach a free‐electron laser

FEB 01, 1976
Marian S. Rothenberg

Great expectations for a powerful, high‐resolution laser, completely tunable from the infrared through the vacuum ultraviolet region, have been raised by some recent work at Stanford University. Experiments there show that a “free‐electron laser”—one in which free electrons stimulate the emission of magnetic bremsstrahlung in a spatially periodic transverse magnetic field—could be a practical device.

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