First observation of spiking behavior in the time domain in a free-electron laser
- 16 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 63 (16) , 1682-1684
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.63.1682
Abstract
The spiking behavior of free-electron lasers, or sideband instability, has been observed for the first time in the time domain using an autocorrelator on the MKIII free-electron laser at Stanford University. The measurement is compared with simulations and qualitative theory.Keywords
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