At the time that we decided to begin work on this book, several
other volumes on the free-electron laser had either been published
or were in press. The earliest work of which we were aware was
published in 1985 by Dr T. C. Marshall of Columbia University [1].
This book dealt with the full range of research on free-electron
lasers, including an overview of the extant experiments. However,
the field has matured a great deal since that time and, in our
judgement, the time was ripe for a more extensive work which
includes the most recent advances in the field. The fundamental
work in this field has largely been approached from two distinct
and, unfortunately, separate viewpoints. On the one hand,
free-electron lasers at sub-millimetre and longer wavelengths
driven by low-energy and high-current electron beams have been
pursued by the plasma physics and microwave tube communities. This
work has confined itself largely to the high-gain regimes in which
collective effects may play an important role. On the other hand,
short-wavelength free-electron lasers in the infrared and optical
regimes have been pursued by the accelerator and laser physics
community. Due to the high-energy and low-current electron beams
appropriate to this spectral range, these experiments have operated
largely in the low-gain single-particle regimes. The most recent
books published on the free-electron laser by Dr C. A.
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