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Bremsstrahlung Radiation
The Bremsstrahlung Laboratory focuses on the production and application of braking radiation generated by high-energy electron beams interacting with target materials. It provides infrastructure for both fundamental nuclear research and applied radiation tests.
⚙️ Technical Infrastructure
- Electron beam energy: Tunable between 15–40 MeV
- Beam type: Continuous wave (CW) with high stability and repetition
- Target system: Optimized radiation production using various metal targets
- Photon beamline: Equipped with collimators, absorbers, and detectors for guiding, filtering, and detecting photon beams
🔬 Research Applications
- Photonuclear reactions
- Rare isotope production
- Material effects under high-energy photon exposure
- Radiation detector calibration
- Experimental validation of Monte Carlo-based radiation transport models
Free Electron Laser (FEL)
TARLA hosts Turkey’s first and only FEL infrastructure, enabling advanced photonics research. The FEL generates intense, tunable, and coherent light by passing accelerated electron beams through magnetic fields (undulators). This setup allows emission in the mid- to far-infrared (5–350 µm) spectrum, which is typically inaccessible with conventional lasers.
📊 FEL Beam Technical Specifications
| Parameter | Value | Unit |
| Photon Energy | 4–300 | meV |
| Wavelength | 5–350 | µm |
| Pulse Duration | 0.5–10 | ps |
| Polarization | Linear | – |
| Repetition Rate | 13 | MHz |
| Max. Pulse Energy | 2 | µJ |
| Max. Peak Power | 2 | MW |
| Max. Average Power | 100 | W |