Free Electron Laser: Gentle and Precise

The resolution to create a Siberian multiaccess center of photochemical research and technologies on the basis of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (Novosibirsk) was signed 15 years ago, shortly before 1993. The so-called free electron laser (FEL) was to become the Center major facility designed for fundamental and applied investigations in physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. The FEL work medium consists of electrons accelerated to relativistic velocities in a new-type accelerator developed at INP. The radiation wavelengths of such a laser can be smoothly tuned in a wide infrared region, from 2 to 200 мm.

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