Optical Frequency Multiplication by an Optical Klystron

B. Girard; Y. Lapierre; J. M. Ortega; C. Bazin; M. Billardon; P. Elleaume; M. Bergher; M. Velghe; Y. Petroff

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.2405

Optical Frequency Multiplication by an Optical Klystron

B. Girard, Y. Lapierre, J. M. Ortega, C. Bazin, M. Billardon, P. Elleaume, M. Bergher, M. Velghe, and Y. Petroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 2405 – Published 17 December 1984

Abstract

We report the first observation of the emission of coherent light by an electron beam bunched at 1.06 μm by a Nd-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser focused into an optical klystron. An enhancement of $10^{2}$ to $10^{3}$ over its spontaneous emission level at 355 nm has been observed in these experiments performed at the ACO storage ring at Orsay.

Received 25 June 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.2405

Authors & Affiliations

B. Girard^*, Y. Lapierre^†, J. M. Ortega^‡, C. Bazin, M. Billardon^‡, P. Elleaume^†, M. Bergher, M. Velghe^§, and Y. Petroff

Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique, Université de Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France

^*Permanent address: Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Laboratoire associé au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique No. 18, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France.
^†Also at Départment de Physico-Chimie, Service de Photophysique, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
^‡Also at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
^§Also at Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Bâtiment 213, Université de Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France.