摘要:
A Compton backscattering x-ray source includes an electron storage ring for storing electron bunches. A timing system refreshes an orbiting electron bunch according to a schedule selected to improve at least one attribute of x-ray emission. In one implementation, the electron bunch is periodically refreshed with a period of at least about 10 Hz.
摘要:
A mirror is reflective to light and transmissive to x-rays. The mirror has a continuous mirror surface and an x-ray aperture within a body portion of the mirror proximate the continuous mirror surface that is transmissive to x-rays.
摘要:
A mirror is reflective to light and transmissive to x-rays. The mirror has a continuous mirror surface and an x-ray aperture within a body portion of the mirror proximate the continuous mirror surface that is transmissive to x-rays.
摘要:
A passive optical resonator stores optical pulses within a cavity to increase the optical power level of input pulses via resonant reflections without the use of an internal optical gain medium. In one embodiment for a Compton backscattering system, the optical resonator is a passive high finesse optical resonator that includes a mirror that is transmissive to x-rays.
摘要:
A mode-locked laser is frequency stabilized to generate phase-locked harmonic RF signals. In one embodiment a first feedback system stabilizes a laser frequency to an optical cavity frequency of the external cavity. A second feedback system may be used to stabilize the optical cavity to a reference frequency source.
摘要:
A high finesse optical resonator is used to store optical pulses of a mode-locked laser. The mode-locked laser is frequency stabilized by monitoring an optical attribute of the high finesse optical resonator indicative of a difference between a center frequency of the mode-locked laser and a resonant frequency of the high finesse optical resonator. In one embodiment FM sideband modulation is used to stabilize the mode-locked laser pulses.