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Oral issue of the journal “Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk”


Ginzburg’s invention of undulators and their role in modern synchrotron radiation sources and free electron lasers


Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. akad. Lavrenteva 11, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation

Undulators — periodic magnetic structures that were originally introduced by Vitalii Ginzburg in 1947 for electromagnetic radiation generation using relativistic electrons — are among the key elements of modern synchrotron radiation sources and free electron lasers (FELs). In this talk, the history of three generations of storage ring-based synchrotron Х-ray sources using wigglers and undulators is briefly traced. Prospects for two types of next-generation space-coherent X-ray sources are discussed, which use long undulators and energy recovery accelerators or, alternatively, employ linear accelerator-based FELs. The recently developed Novosibirsk terahertz FEL facility, currently the world’ s most powerful terahertz source, is described. It was the generation of electromagnetic radiation in this range that Ginzburg discussed in his 1947 work.

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Fulltext is also available at DOI: 10.1070/PU2007v050n04ABEH006237
PACS: 01.10.Fv, 07.85.−m, 07.85.Qe, 41.60.Cr (all)
DOI: 10.1070/PU2007v050n04ABEH006237
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2007/4/f/
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Citation: Kulipanov G N "Ginzburg's invention of undulators and their role in modern synchrotron radiation sources and free electron lasers" Phys. Usp. 50 368–376 (2007)
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Оригинал: Кулипанов Г Н «Изобретение В.Л. Гинзбургом ондуляторов и их роль в современных источниках синхротронного излучения и лазерах на свободных электронах» УФН 177 384–393 (2007); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0177.200704f.0384

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