Laser-electron generator for X-ray applications in science and technology

Abstract

The possibility of the creation and the application prospects of the laser-electron X-ray generator based on Thomson scattering of laser radiation on a bunch of relativistic electrons are considered. Such a generator fills the existing gap between X-ray tubes and synchrotron radiation sources, which is several orders of magnitude in terms of the brightness, average intensity, size, and also in the construction and running costs.

The evaluation of transmutation of hazardous nuclear waste of 90Sr, into valuable nuclear medicine of 89Sr by ultraintense lasers

“…The laser-matter interaction meets the high energy physics in laser-plasma accelerators in generating highly collimated bright X/g-ray sources (Giulietti et al, 2005;Chyla, 2006;Bessonov et al, 2008) and the production of thick ion blocks (Glowacz, 2006;Yazdani et al, 2009;Hora, 2009;Azizi et al, 2009;Hora et al, 2009). The laser-matter interaction meets the high energy physics in laser-plasma accelerators in generating highly collimated bright X/g-ray sources (Giulietti et al, 2005;Chyla, 2006;Bessonov et al, 2008) and the production of thick ion blocks (Glowacz, 2006;Yazdani et al, 2009;Hora, 2009;Azizi et al, 2009;Hora et al, 2009).…”

X-ray Thomson scattering cross-section in strongly correlated plasmas

“…For the sake of completeness, we should mention that inverse Thomson scattering has recently known increasing interest as a mechanism to generate short-wavelength coherent radiation by scattering optical laser radiation on a counterpropagating relativistic electron beam (Bessonov et al, 2008;Kulagin et al, 2008). Pulses of X-ray radiation with 9 Â 10 6 photons per pulse have been predicted, e.g., by Priebe et al (2008), using this technique.…”

The effects of circularly polarized laser pulse on generated electron nano-bunches in oscillating mirror model

“…The recent rapid advances in ultra-intense short pulse lasers and their numerous applications stimulated the research activities in this field such as generation of high energy electron and ion beams and their acceleration (Kawata et al, 2005;Mangles et al, 2006;Chyla, 2006;Bessonov et al, 2008;Sadighi-Bonabi et al, 2010sc, 2011 mono-energetic electron beam (Glinec et al, 2005;Zobdeh et al, 2008;Sadighi-Bonabi et al, 2009a;2010a;2010b), monoenergetic ion beam generation (Badziak, 2005), X-ray emission (Nikzad et al, 2012), high harmonic generation, and X-ray lasers (L'Huillier et al, 1993). Among all possible applications of laser, produced X-rays are useful for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) (Keith Matzen et al, 2005;Yazdani et al, 2009;Sadighi-Bonabi et al, 2010d), which is the most challenging problem.…”