Highly efficient and high-power industrial FELs driven by a compact, stand-alone and zero-boil-off superconducting RF linac

Abstract

In order to realize a tunable, highly efficient, high average power, high peak power and ultra-short pulse free-electron laser (FEL) as a Supertool (Laser, Supertool of the 1980s, Ticker & Fields, New Heaven, CT, 1982) of the 21st century, for all, the JAERI FEL group and I have developed an industrial FEL driven by a compact, stand-alone and zero-boil-off superconducting RF linac (Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 445 (2000)183) with an energy-recovery geometry as a conceptual design. Our discussions on the Supertool will cover market requirements for the industrial FELs, some answers from the JAERI compact, stand-alone and zero-boil-off cryostat concept, non-stop cooling, and operational experience over these 9 years, and our discovery of the new, highly efficient, high-power, and ultra-short pulse lasing mode (Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 5707), and the energy-recovery geometry.