Channeling and Radiation in Periodically Bent Crystals

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-662-50617-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 284 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4511 g

Reihe: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics

The development of coherent radiation sources for sub-angstrom wavelengths - i.e. in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray range - is a challenging goal of modern physics. The availability of such sources will have many applications in basic science, technology and medicine and in particular, they may have a revolutionary impact on nuclear and solid state physics, as well as on the life sciences. The present state-of-the-art lasers are capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation from the infrared to the ultraviolet, while free electron lasers (X-FELs) are now entering the soft X-ray region. Moving further, i.e. into the hard X and/or gamma ray band, however, is not possible without new approaches and technologies.

In this book we introduce and discuss one such novel approach -the radiation formed in a Crystalline Undulator - whereby electromagnetic radiation is generated by a bunch of ultra-relativistic particles channeling through a periodically bent crystalline structure. Under certain conditions, such a device can emit intensive spontaneous monochromatic radiation and even reach the coherence of laser light sources.

Readers will be presented with the underlying fundamental physics and be familiarized with the theoretical, experimental and technological advances made during the last one and a half decades in exploring the various features of investigations into crystalline undulators. This research draws upon knowledge from many research fields - such as materials science, beam physics, the physics of radiation, solid state physics and acoustics, to name but a few. Accordingly, much care has been taken by the authors to make the book as self-contained as possible in this respect, so as to also provide a useful introduction to this emerging field to a broad readership of researchers and scientist with various backgrounds.

This new edition has been revised and extended to take recent developments in the field into account.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Korol, Andrey V.

Greiner, Walter

Solov'yov, Andrey V.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Quantenoptik, Nichtlineare Optik, Laserphysik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Elektronik, Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Related Phenomena.- Schemes for Periodic Bending of Crystals.- Feasability of a Positron-Based Crystalline Undulator.- Positron-Based CU: Illustrative Material.- CUs for Electrons and Heavy Particles.- Experimental Studies of CUR.- Stimulated Emission from CU.- Conclusion.- References.- Index.