Required technologies of superconducting energy recovering RF linac-based free-electron lasers for large-scale and popular industrial applications

Minehara, Eisuke

Proceedings of ARTA 2004, p.75 - 76, 2004/00

The JAERI superconducting RF linac-based free-electron laser has successfully produced the tunable, 6% or more efficient, a few hundreds femtoseconds, and 2.34kW high average power laser light firstly. Here we discuss and report what kinds of the accelerator and free-electron laser technologies we need in order to make a large-scale and popular industrial FEL applications possible, to increase the average power drastically, to realize the JAERI FEL to be a non-ionizing radiation generating device, and to miniaturize the device volume and weight. In the discussion as a specific example of the large-scale and popular industrial applications, we discuss the nuclear energy related example, and the required technologies of the accelerator and non-accelerator related.