Generation of Intense Coherent Soft X-rays by Laser Induced and Subsequently Frozen Electron Microbunching

Abstract

The Transverse Optical Klystron (TOK) has been described by many authors1. An important recent development is the proposal to use the TOK to generate radiation from the vacuum ultra-violet to the soft X-rays2,3. In this paper, a new and improved method to generate intense coherent radiation of short wavelength is described.