Following the first lasing of the ALICE infra-red Free Electron Laser (FEL) in October 2010, which was the first demonstration of a FEL in the UK, a comprehensive paper reporting the results has now been published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A. The paper describes the installed hardware, the pre-alignment techniques, the diagnostics used to detect and characterise the IR output, the first measurements of the FEL output parameters and the plans for future development and exploitation of the FEL.
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