A few hundred femtosecond FEL with a few kW average and one GW peak power for academic and industrial applications

Abstract

The JAERI FEL group has successfully discovered, and realized the brand-new FEL lasing of 255fs ultrafast pulse, 6-9% high-efficiency, one gigawatt high peak power, a few kilowatts average power, and wide tenability of medium and far infrared wavelength regions at the same time. The new lasing was named to be “high-degeneracy superradianct lasing of FEL”. Using the new lasing, we could realize a powerful and efficient free-electron laser(FEL) for industrial uses, for examples, pharmacy, medical, defense, shipbuilding, semiconductor industry, chemical industries, environmental sciences, space-debris, power beaming and so on. In order to realize such a tunable, highly-efficient, high average power, high peak power and ultra-short pulse FEL, we need the efficient and powerful FEL driven by JAERI compact, stand-alone and zero-boil-off super-conducting rf linac with an energy-recovery geometry. Our discussions on the FEL will cover market-requirements and roadmap for the industrial FELs, some answers from the JAERI compact, stand-alone and zero-boil-off cryostat concept and operational experience over these 10 years, our discovery of the new highly-efficient, high-power, and ultra-short pulse lasing mode, and the energy-recovery geometry.