https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2006080
Collective effects in the Thomson back-scattering between a laser pulse and a relativistic electron beam
1
INFN-Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria, 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Milano e INFN-Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria, 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
Corresponding author: Vittoria.Petrillo@mi.infn.it
Received:
18
January
2006
Revised:
20
April
2006
Accepted:
19
May
2006
Published online:
12
July
2006
Collective effects in the radiation emission via Thomson back-scattering of an intense optical laser pulse by high brightness electron beams are analyzed. The micro-bunching of the electron beam on the scale of the wavelength of the emitted radiation and the consequent free-electron-laser instability may significantly enhance the number of photons emitted. Scaling-laws of the radiation properties, both in the collective and incoherent spontaneous regimes versus laser and electron beam parameters are discussed in the framework of the one-dimensional model.
PACS: 41.60.-m – Radiation by moving charges / 41.60.Cr – Free-electron laser / 41.20.-q – Applied classical electromagnetism
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