Session 3V - Synchrotron Radiation Facilities 1, Free Electron Lasers.
POSTER session, Tuesday morning, May 13
Vancouver Island Room,
A relativistic electron beam interacting with an incident counter streaming laser beam emits synchrotron radiation. This paper presents the main parameters of a proposed laser synchrotron source which uses the 40~MeV Betatron of the Institute of Atomic Physics (IAP) as a relativistic electron beam source and a Nd-YAG laser with wavelength \lambda = 1~\mum as electromagnetic undulator. Detailed calculations indicate that this experiment should be feasible with present technology. The long term goal of the project is to use a betatron with the maximal energy of 280~MeV. The tunability of X-ray energy between 15~KeV and 1.5~MeV is achieved by changing the electron beam energy between 28~MeV and 280~MeV.