Seeded X-ray free-electron laser generating radiation with laser statistical properties

Free electron lasers are emerging as important tools for nonlinear spectroscopy in the X-ray regime. Here the authors demonstrate the second order coherence of a seeded FEL source that may be useful for measurements in quantum optics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oleg Yu. Gorobtsov, Giuseppe Mercurio, Flavio Capotondi, Petr Skopintsev, Sergey Lazarev, Ivan A. Zaluzhnyy, Miltcho B. Danailov, Martina Dell’Angela, Michele Manfredda, Emanuele Pedersoli, Luca Giannessi, Maya Kiskinova, Kevin C. Prince, Wilfried Wurth, Ivan A. Vartanyants
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06743-8