Ultraviolet coherent generation from an optical klystron

UV or VUV radiation (photon energy in the range from 5 to 50 eV) can be utilized by many scientific areas. Such areas include molecular photochemistry, solid state physics, and the biological sciences. A number of possible sources exist for obtaining the required radiation. Thus, synchrotron radiation facilities represent a possibility. However, synchrotron radiation has a number of drawbacks related to an inadequacy for multiphoton excitation and the achievement of temporal coherence. A storage ring free electron laser has a great potential as a source, but certain development work is required. A possibility to generate VUV coherent radiation without any dedicated facilities is related to an employment of an optical klystron and a laser. The present study is concerned with an experiment which was undertaken with the objective of producing UV radiation at 0.335 micron by using the third harmonic of the 1.05 micron line of a YAG laser. A numerical analysis is also discussed.