Saturation in the Classical Theory of the Free-electron Laser
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics
- Vol. 26 (9) , 1121-1124
- https://doi.org/10.1080/713820111
Abstract
The emitted energy and gain in the region of strong field asymptotics are derived for the free-electron laser from the classical equations of motion. The resulting expressions are shown to be identical to those derived using a quantum-mechanical formulation.Keywords
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