Objective By using an artificially generated plasma crystal to produce a regular lattice structure it will be shown that coherent radiation can be generated by a mildly relativistic electron beam propagating through the lattice. The radiation emitted is the usual channel radiation previously studied using solid crystal lattices as the electron wiggler. In the plasma crystal the large micron-sized sphere, which is charged with approximately 10,000 electrons, forms a regular lattice structure which acts as the electron wiggler. Radiation is found theoretically to be emitted at a frequency of 4pg2c/L, where L is the lattice spacing distance and g is the relativistic Lorentz factor for the electrons. The device will be studied theoretically but with some experimentation. A major problem is the robustness. It has been verified that these structures are very robust (difficult to destroy). The problems associated with the normal channel crystal laser, such as heat dissipation, present no major difficulty since the plasma crystal can easily dissipate excess heat by electron conduction and phonon propagation. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 12 - Atomic Structure, Lasers and Optics Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) EU contribution No data Address Chilton OX11 0XQ Didcot United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukraine EU contribution No data Address 252143 Kiev See on map Total cost No data Russian Academy of Sciences Russia EU contribution No data Address 117942 Moscow See on map Total cost No data Technical University of Lisbon Portugal EU contribution No data Address 1096 Lisboa See on map Total cost No data
