X-ray sources
Ultra-intense lasers can drive a variety of secondary light sources that inherit the laser's ultra-short duration in the femto- to picosecond range. These light sources are useful for numerous applications such as probing of ultra-fast processes and imaging.
We also invite you to visit our ALPA website for more informations on applications of laser-driven particle acceleration.
Research coordinators: Stefan Karsch, Jörg Schreiber
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Betatron radiation is a type of broadband synchrotron-like radiation that is generated by electrons in laser wakefields.
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The slow down of electrons in materials leads to the emission of bremsstrahlung photons, whose spectrum reaches up to the energy of the electrons themselves.
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Harmonics of the infrared laser in the UV and XUV regime can be generated in gases or at the surface of plasma mirrors.
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The Thomson backscattering process uses relativistic electrons to reflect infrared photons back at keV to MeV level energies.
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