"Enhanced synchrotron radiation through shortened electron bunches offers powerful, laser-like light, with recent experiments supporting its feasibility for advanced materials research. Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, Harnessing the Power of Micro-Bunching: A New Frontier in Synchrotron Radiation)
When particles travel in a particle accelerator, they load energy into themselves. And when they change their direction. Particles send wave movement called synchrotron radiation. The use of synchrotron radiation in physical instruments is not a new idea. A "free-electron laser" (FEL) uses synchrotron radiation to make a coherent energy beam. The system uses electrons. Those electrons travel in an accelerator track to make that radiation.
The magnetic system puts those electron's tracks curving. And when the electron changes its direction, it sends radiation, or light quantum, called a photon. Those free-electron lasers can be kilometers-long particle accelerators. And they can create a very powerful laser beam. That wavelength is adjustable.
Another thing that can use synchrotron radiation is the laser system that uses Cherenkov's radiation. The accelerator shoots electrons or protons into the water or medium where the speed of light is lower. Then in air or vacuum, the system can benefit that thing for making the laser beams. The system shoots electrons into the water for example. When a particle decreases its speed, it sends a blue light flash. That water tank can be around the laser element. And that thing can create coherent blue light flash.
Synchrotron radiation can be used to make next-generation X-ray systems. That radiation can also used to find new details in the microcosmos. The thing that makes synchrotron radiation so interesting is that its wavelength is the same as the transmitting particle's diameter. This means that the synchrotron radiation can scan even subatomic parts of atoms. There is only one problem.
Some subatomic particles are very short-living. However, time dilation in synchrotrons can make those particles exist, for a longer time than usual. And, the most advanced systems can use those particles to measure atoms' internal structures. The laser beams can also used to make time dilation in the trapped particles.
Researchers can use synchrotron radiation for communication, and measurement, and as an industrial tool or weapon. The free-electron lasers can be the next-generation tool for laser communication systems that can change their wavelength very fast. And that makes those systems ultra-secured.
The most important thing is that: the coherent light beams can be used for things, like antimatter measurements. The system can use very accurate laser bursts to particle-antiparticle pairs. And then it can measure the distance where annihilation starts.
"A pulsed laser co-propagates with the electron beam through the MLS U125 undulator and imposes an energy modulation. The same undulator serves as a radiator on the following passes of the electron beam. The undulator radiation is detected by a fast photodiode, while the laser pulse is blocked from the detection path using an electro-optical switch. Credit: HZB/ Communications Physics" (ScitechDaily, Harnessing the Power of Micro-Bunching: A New Frontier in Synchrotron Radiation)
The system can use Synchrotron radiation in new lidar technology. The lidar system can use synchrotron radiation as a radiation source for lidars or laser radars.
The coherent light has many uses in military and civil technology. Things like laser-based anti-ballistic missile systems, ABMs, and anti-aircraft systems can be very impressive tools. The thing is this. Coherent light can also be useful for more powerful systems. Over a kilometers long laser systems can make a very powerful ray.
Working of the undulator. 1: magnets, 2: electron beam entering from the upper left, 3: synchrotron radiation exiting to the lower right" (Wikipedia, Undulator)
The system uses orbital mirror satellites to reflect beams to targets. This system can destroy things like other satellites, ICBMs, and hypersonic missiles if they fly in a high atmosphere. The problem is that the scattering effect pulls energy out from the laser rays.
Researchers tested things like phonons to make the channel through air. In the same way, the hollow laser ray can push air molecules away from its route. Then another laser beam travels in the hollow beam.
The system can use antimatter or synchrotron radiation to make a very powerful energy beam. The orbiting mirrors can reflect that radiation to the ground. And if the power of those lasers is high enough they can destroy ground targets. Those high-power lasers destroy orbital mirrors but those single-used mirrors can reflect the laser rays as long as they can destroy ground- or high-flying targets.
https://scitechdaily.com/harnessing-the-power-of-micro-bunching-a-new-frontier-in-synchrotron-radiation/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-electron_laser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undulator
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