Feasibility of dc to visible high-power conversion employing a stimulated Compton free electron laser with a waveguided CO2 laser pump wave and an axial electric field

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Abstract
We examine the feasibility of high power generation of visible radiation by a process of applying an axial accelerating electric field on electrons trapped in the ponderomotive potential of a Compton scattering free electron laser. We consider a scheme where the pump (wiggler) field is produced by a high‐power pulsed CO2 laser and the signal wave is the radiation of a high‐power pulsed dye laser. We propose to use a hollow dielectric waveguide in order to overcome the pump wave diffraction and obtain a long interaction length.