3 papers
physics.acc-ph2026
Advanced Control of Electron Beams: Tailoring X-ray Production with Programmable Laser Shaping
Jack Hirschman, Randy Lemons, Hao Zhang +23
Leveraging the full scientific capabilities of next-generation high-repetition-rate free-electron lasers requires programmable control over electron-beam properties at their source…
physics.optics2026
Upstream Laser-based Longitudinal Enhancement of Relativistic Photoelectrons
Hao Zhang, Randy Lemons, Jack Hirschman +23
Controlling the longitudinal phase space of high-brightness relativistic electron beams is crucial for advancing a broad spectrum of charged-particle-based instrumentation and scie…
physics.acc-ph2025
Spectrotemporal shaping of attosecond x-ray pulses with a fresh-slice free-electron laser
River R. Robles, Kirk A. Larsen, David Cesar +14
We propose a scheme allowing coherent shaping, i.e., controlling both the amplitude and phase, of attosecond x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers. We show that by seeding an FEL wi…