Novel Lights Sources Beyond Free Electron Lasers

This book discusses possibilities and perspectives for designing and practical realization of novel intensive gamma—ray crystal—based light sources that can be constructed through exposure of oriented crystals—linear, bent and periodically bent, to beams of ultrarelativistic positrons and electrons.

The book shows case studies like the tunable light sources based on periodically bent crystals that can be designed with the state—of—the—art beam facilities. A special focus is given to the an...