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Free-electron lasers have long enabled the generation of extremely intense, sub-picosecond TFlz pulses that have been used to characterize a wide variety of materials and ultrafast processes [43]. Due to their massive size and great expense, however, only a few research groups have been able to operate them. Other approaches to the generation of sub-picosecond TFlz pulses have therefore been sought, and one of the earliest and most successfid involved semiconducting materials. In a photoconductive semiconductor, carriers (for n-type material, electrons)... 

Schematic diagrams of modem experimental apparatus used for IR pump-probe by Payer and co-workers [50] and for IR-Raman experiments by Dlott and co-workers [39] are shown in figure C3.5.3. Ultrafast mid-IR pulse generation by optical parametric amplification (OPA) [71] will not discussed here. Single-colour IR pump-probe or vibrational echo experiments have been perfonned with OP As or free-electron lasers. Free-electron lasers use...

Free-Electron Lasers. The free-electron laser (EEL) directly converts the kinetic energy of a relativistic electron beam into light (45,46). Relativistic electron beams have velocities that approach the speed of light. The active medium is a beam of free electrons. The EEL, a specialized device having probably limited appHcations, is a novel type of laser with high tunabiHty and potentially high power and efficiency. 

The free-electron laser (EEL) offers the ultimate in tunabiHty, in principle being unlimited in its tuning range. A EEL represents a very large investment, however. 

However, time-resolved X-ray diffraction remains a young science. It is still impossible, or is at least very difficult, to attain time scales below to a picosecond. General characteristics of subpicosecond X-ray diffraction and absorption are hardly understood. To progress in this direction, free electron laser X-ray sources are actually under construction subject to heavy financial constraints. Nevertheless, this field is exceptionally promising. Working therein is a challenge for everybody ... 

The progress achieved is closely linked to the development of both powerful detectors and brilliant X-ray sources (synchrotron radiation, rotating anode). Such point-focus equipment has replaced older slit-focus equipment (Kratky camera, Rigaku-Denki camera) in many laboratories, and the next step of instrumental progress is already discernible. With the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) it will become possible to study very fast processes like the structure relaxation of elastomers after the removal of mechanical load. 

Uniaxial orientation parameter (Hermans orientation function) Scattering data evaluation program by A. Hammersley (ESRF) Free Electron Laser Hamburg Full width at half-maximum... 

V UV-FEL vacuum ultra-violet free-electron laser... 

Freedom of Information Electronic Reading Room (ODER), 15 701-702 Free electron lasers (FELs), 1 720 Free energy, of antigen-antibody binding events, 74 138... 

Dunbar, R. C. Moore, D. T. Oomens,/. IR-Spectroscopic Characterization of Acetophenone Complexes with Fe+, Co+, and NT using Free-Electron-Laser IRMPD./. Phys. Chem. A 2006, no, 8316-8326. 

Neutze R, Huldt G, Hajdu J, van der Spoel D (2004) Potential impact of an X-ray free electron laser on structural biology. Rad Phys Chem 71 905-916... 

The major advantage of time-resolved X-ray techniques, as compared to optical spectroscopy, is that their wavelength X as well as the pulse duration r can be chosen to fit the atomic scales. This is not the case for optical spectroscopy, where the wavelength X exceeds interatomic distances by three orders of magnitude at least. Unfortunately, X-ray techniques also have their drawbacks. They require large scale instruments such as the synchrotron. Even much larger instruments based on free electron lasers are actually under construction. The... 

Another recent notable technical advance has been the development of a pulsed Orotron source currently being used and tested in the 360 GHz system at Berlin. This electron-beam device (Smith Purcell free electron laser) has feedback via a high-Q Fabry-Perot cavity and thus features good frequency stability as well as pulse output powers at 360 GHz in the many tens of mW. 

Comparison between ultrafast electron diffraction (UED), x-ray diffraction (UXD), and the prospective X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)... 

Free Electron Laser. Lasers of this type depart markedly from conventional lasers. Free electron lasers employ an electron beam and a magnetic field. A free" electron may be defined as an electron that is not hound into atnms or molecules. Traditional lasers use hound electrons. Thus. Ihe conventional laser is limited to producing light (radiation) lhat is consistent with those frequencies lhat are specific to the ibraiion of a... 

We have considered in particular the case of multiphoton transitions, to be observed with the help of intense high frequency fields as produced by X-ray Lasers or Free-Electron Lasers (FEL). As a result of our analysis, we have shown that two-photon bound-bound transition amplitudes in high-Z hydrogenic systems are significantly affected by relativistic corrections, even for low values of the charge of the nucleus. For instance at Z = 20, the corrections amount to about 10%, a value much higher than what is observed for standard one-photon transitions in X-ray spectroscopy measurements for which the non-relativistic dipole (NRD) approximation agrees with the exact result to within 99% at comparable frequencies. 

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