Laser undulator radiation

Abstract Various characteristics such as the number of photons, the wavelength, and the solid angle of the laser undulator radiation have been measured quantitatively. It was performed in the visible wavelength region using the interaction between a high-power pulsed CO 2 laser and a high-quality electron beam having an energy of 0.65–0.85 MeV. The experimental results were in good agreement with the theoretical calculations. A criterion to determine the limitation to the number of periods of the laser undulator was also proposed.