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Course Materials - University of  California, Davis - July 2024

VUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Instructors: Dinh Nguyen and Chris Mayes, xLight Inc; Nicole Neveu, SLAC
TA: Colwyn Gulliford, Xelera Research LLC

Class intro and schedule

Lectures:
Day 1.1 – FEL Introduction
Day 1.2 – Simulations lecture

Day 2.1 – Bright Sources
Day 2.2 – Injector Beam Dynamics
Day 2.3 – Bunch Compression, CSR, and Laser Heaters
Day 2.4 – Focusing

Day 3.1 – SASE

Day 4.1 - Hard and Soft X-ray Self-Seeding
Day 4 - Lecture 2


Homework:
Homework 1
Homework 2

Computer Labs