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PLEIADES is a compact, tunable, high-brightness, ultra-short-pulse, Thomson-scattering X-ray source. Picosecond pulses of hard X-rays (10–200 keV) are created by colliding an ultra-relativistic (20–100 MeV), picosecond-duration electron beam with a high-intensity, sub-picosecond, 800-nm laser pulse. Initial operation of this source has produced 78-keV X-rays with 106 photons per pulse using a 57-MeV, 0.3-nC, 50-μm rms width electron beam and a 180-mJ, 15-μm rms width laser pulse. The angular distribution, energy, and energy spectrum of the source are found to agree well with theory and simulations. Source optimization is expected to increase X-ray output to between 107 and 108 photons per pulse with a peak brightness approaching 1020 photons/s/0.1% bandwidth/mm2/mrad2.
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Anderson, S., Barty, C., Betts, S. et al. Short-pulse, high-brightness X-ray production with the PLEIADES Thomson-scattering source. Appl Phys B 78, 891–894 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1455-0
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