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1 April 2002 W.M. Keck-Vanderbilt Free-Electron Laser Center facilities
William E. Gabella, Bibo Feng, John A. Kozub, David W. Piston
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The W.M. Keck-Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center operates a reliable free-electron laser (FEL) that is used in human surgical trials, as well as in basic and applied sciences. The wavelength of the FEL is tunable from 2.1 micrometers to 9.6 micrometers , delivering above 50 mJ per macropulse with a repetition rate of 30 Hz. For soft tissue surgery, especially neurosurgery and surgery on the optic nerve, a wavelength of 6.45 micrometers has been found to ablate with little collateral damage. The free-electron laser beam is delivered to experiments approximately 2000 hours each year. The Center also supports several other tools useful for biomedical experiments: an optical parametric generator laser system with tunable wavelength similar to the free- electron laser except it has much lower average power; a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer to characterize samples; several devices for in vivo imaging including an optical coherence tomography setup, a two-photon fluorescent confocal microscope, and a cooled, integrating camera capable of imaging luciferin-luciferase reactions within the body of a mouse. The Center also houses a tunable, monochromatic x-ray source based on Compton backscattering of a laser off of a relativistic electron beam.
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William E. Gabella, Bibo Feng, John A. Kozub, and David W. Piston "W.M. Keck-Vanderbilt Free-Electron Laser Center facilities", Proc. SPIE 4633, Commercial and Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast and Free-Electron Lasers, (1 April 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461374
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KEYWORDS
Free electron lasers

Electron beams

Infrared spectroscopy

Surgery

Spectroscopy

Picosecond phenomena

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