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Stephen Benson
Research Scientist |
Contact:
- Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
- 757-269-5026 (phone)
757-269-5510 (fax)
- felman@jlab.org
Education:
- B.S. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1976
- Ph. D. Stanford University, Stanford CA, 1985
Career:
- Research Associate, Stanford University, 1985 - 1989
- Research Professor, Duke University, 1989 - 1992
- Research Scientist, Jefferson Lab, 1992 - Present
Prizes and Awards:
- Lasers '88 Prize, 1988
- FEL Prize, 2000
Research Highlights:
- High Brightness electron beam sources
- Free-electron laser physics
- High Power optical resonator development
Selected Publications
- S. V. Benson and J. M. J. Madey,
"Demonstration of harmonic lasing in a free-electron laser",
Phys. Rev. A, 39 (1 Feb. 1989) 1579 - 1581.
- M. S. Curtin, G. Bennett and R. Burke, S. V. Benson, J. M. J. Madey,
"First Demonstration of a Free-electron Laser Driven by Electrons from a
Laser Irradiated Photocathode",
Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Lasers ‘88 (Lake Tahoe NV, Dec. 1988),
Eds. R. C. Sze and F. J. Duarte, p. 196.
- S. V. Benson, P. S. Davidson, R. Jain, P. K. Kloeppel,
G. R. Neil, and M. D. Shinn,
"Optical modeling of the Jefferson Laboratory IR demo FEL",
Nucl. Inst. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A407 (1998) 401 - 406.
- G. R. Neil, C. L. Bohn, S. V. Benson, G. Biallas, D. Douglas,
H. F. Dylla, R. Evans, J. Fugitt, A. Grippo, J. Gubeli, R. Hill,
K. Jordan, R. Li, L. Merminga, P. Piot, J. Preble, M. Shinn,
T. Siggins, R. Walker, and B. Yunn,
"Sustained Kilowatt Lasing in a Free-Electron Laser with Same-Cell Energy Recovery",
Physical Review Letters, 84, (2000) 662.
(and complete list of papers)
Books
- S. V. Benson, "Tunable free-electron lasers", in Tunable Lasers Handbook,
copyright 1995 Academic Press, Inc. pp. 443 - 470.
Seminars and Conference Presentations
- The FEL conference proceedings, published in Nuclear Instruments
and Methods in Physics Research Volume A is a good source for FEL
physics presentations given by me and by others at Jefferson Lab.
Professional Activities
- Member of American Physical Society
- Member of Optical Society of America
Links
contact casaweb@jlab.org
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