4m length inverse-Compton scattering X-ray source

In addition to large-scale X-ray facilities such as synchrotrons and X-ray FELs, there have been increasing demands for much more compact X-ray sources with high brilliance, ultra short pulse properties and coherence. Dr. W. S. Graves (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and his colleagues have proposed a design for a compact X-ray source based on inverse Compton scattering. The source consists of a 1m linuc and an ultra short pulse laser. The whole size of the source including X-ray experiment space is nearly 4m. The colliding laser is a Yb:YAG solid-state amplifier producing 1030 nm, 100 mJ pulses at 1 kHz repetition rate. The calculation shows that X-ray intensity at 12.4 keV is 5×10¹¹ photons/second in a 5% bandwidth. For more information, see the paper, "Compact x-ray source based on burst-mode inverse Compton scattering at 100 kHz", W. S. Graves et al., Phys. Rev. STAB, 17, 120701 (2014).