Abstract
We discuss the development of a new generation of accelerator-based hard X-ray sources driven exclusively by laser light. High-intensity laser pulses serve the dual roles: first, accelerating electrons by laser-driven plasma wakefields, and second, generating X-rays by inverse Compton scattering. Such all-laser-driven X-rays have recently been demonstrated to be energetic, tunable, relatively narrow in bandwidth, short pulsed and well collimated. Such characteristics, especially from a compact source, are highly advantageous for numerous advanced X-ray applications – in metrology, biomedicine, materials, ultrafast phenomena, radiology and fundamental physics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 417-431 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Contemporary Physics |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2 2015 |
Keywords
- electron accelerator
- laser plasma X-ray
- scattering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)