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 usefulintroduction 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."
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