Proposal for the Generation of Terawatt, Attosecond X-Ray Pulses in Free Electron Lasers

A feasible novel method is proposed to generate attosecond terawatt X-ray radiation pulse in free electron lasers, which could find its application on multiple science fields. In our scheme, a chirped laser is employed to generate a chirped periodic current enhancement and a series of spatiotemporal shifters are applied between the undulator sections to generate ultra-short radiation pulse. Three-dimensional start-to-end simulations are carried out and the calculation results show that a 0.15nm X-ray pulse with the peak power of about 1TW and the pulse length of 0.1fs could be achieved in our scheme.