Advanced Ultrabright X-Ray Sources for the Study of Superenergetic States of Matter

摘要

A class of ultrabright multi-kilovolt x-ray sources has been developed that can serve an array of new measurements and applications concerning the properties of all forms of condensed matter. In comparison to presently available synchrotron technology, the experimentally demonstrated superiority in performance (peak brightness per unit cost) is approximately a factor of 10(exp 10). An important characteristic of these sources is their intrinsic capability to produce coherent energy at an intensity for which the electric field magnitude exceeds an atomic unit. A leading consequence of this property is the introduction of new nonlinear modalities of electromagnetic coupling into the x-ray spectral region that are applicable to all classes of materials.