| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/A11632/01 |
| Title: |
AF: EXPERIMENTAL COLLECTIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Cross, Professor A |
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| Department: |
Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Strathclyde |
| Scheme: |
Advanced Fellowship (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 March 2002 |
Ends: |
28 February 2007 |
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236,714
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
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Healthcare |
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Lasers are designed to produce electromagnetic radiation (microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultra-violet light) with a narrow range of frequencies. Most lasers are based on a light wave moving electrons around within atoms, however this proposal plans an investigation of lasers (sometimes called Masers when the light wave is at microwave frequencies) where the electrons have been released from the atoms into an `electron beam' and the light modifies and reduces the electron speed. The presence of the light wave causes the electrons to release their energy as more light but importantly the electric and magnetic fields within the emitted light wave have the same orientation and phase as those in the original wave and can therefore combine to produce a wave of higher amplitude. This additive effect is called `phase coherence' and the emission is called stimulated emission. Two of the main aims of this proposal are to investigate new free-electron-type laser amplifiers which are frequency tunable, and to use novel oscillators to generate extremely high power radiation pulses. A further aim of this proposal is to investigate how to generate powerful, extremely short pulses of radiation, either as single pulses or as trains of pulses consisting of short spikes of light having amplitudes and durations which are not readily predictable (being of `chaotic' nature). Radiation with these properties has many potential applications in science and technology, and an understanding of these phenomena would represent a significant advance in physics.
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http://www.strath.ac.uk |