Free-electron generators of coherent radiation; Proceedings of the Meeting, Orcas Island, WA, June 26-July 1, 1983

Among the topics discussed are the evolution of long pulses in a tapered wiggler Free Electron Laser (FEL) linear gain and stable pulse propagation in an FEL oscillator, FEL injection locking by an alexandrite laser, accelerator technology for a high power, short wavelength FEL, an acoustooptic output coupler for FELs, second harmonic generation with high power short pulses from an IR FEL, the Los Alamos FEL project's experimental and developmental results to date, the Lawson-Penner limit and FEL operation by single pass devices, and the radially resolved simulation of a high gain FEL amplifier. Also covered are FEL amplifier performance in the Compton regime, unstable FEL resonators, the operation of a storage ring-free FEL, chaotic optical modes in FELs, bright electron beams for FELs, the three-dimensional theory of the Raman FEL, Cerenkov lasers in the Compton regime, and prospects for an X-ray FEL.