Argonne Accelerator Institute Members

Sandra G. Biedron S.G. Biedron
Phone: (630) 252-1162
E-mail address: biedron@anl.gov
Division and group: Argonne Office of Naval Research

Areas of Research Interest

Dr. Sandra Biedron is the Director of the Department of Defense Project Office in Applied Science and Technology Associate Laboratory Directorship of Argonne National Laboratory and an Associate Director of the Argonne accelerator Institute. She is a physicist whose main research is in beam and laser source development and use. She is cross-trained in chemistry, biology, and electrical engineering. She was one of the team members who proved the SASE FEL concept in the visible to VUV wavelengths. Dr. Biedron was also the ANL representative and participant on the BNL/ANL high-gain harmonic generation FEL experiment. Dr. Biedron has been involved with electron guns for over twelve years and was the first in the world to predict and measure the nonlinear harmonic growth on two types of high-gain free-electron lasers - an important component of many new FEL projects worldwide. She has managed and led the international work-group FEL Exotica for over eight years that examines exotic beam and photon schemes, including exotic undulator designs. Dr. Biedron is a member of the Leadership Circle of the SPIE, the Awards Committee, and served as chair of the Scholarship and Grants Committees for two years. She is a senior member of the IEEE and served as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Chicago Section, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences/Magnetics Society and served on the Program Committee of the 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference jointly sponsored by the IEEE and APS. Since 2005, she is the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Elected Representative to the Nuclear Plasma and Sciences Society of the IEEE. She has served on a variety of international program and organizing committees and has organized a number of conferences, workshops, and plenary sessions.

Selected List of Publications

  • H.P. Freund, P.G. O’Shea, S.G. Biedron, “Nonlinear Harmonic Generation in Free-Electron Lasers with Helical Wigglers, Physical Review Letters, 25 February 2005.

  • Sandra G. Biedron, Henry P. Freund, Stephen V. Milton, Giuseppe Dattoli, Alberto Renieri, Pier Luigi Ottaviani, “Evolution of Transverse Modes in a High-Gain Free-Electron Laser,” to be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A in 2004.

  • S.G. Biedron, G. Dattoli, W.M. Fawley, H.P. Freund, Z. Huang, K.J. Kim, S.V. Milton, H.-D. Nuhn, P.L. Ottaviani, and A. Renieri, “Impact of Electron Beam Quality on Nonlinear Harmonic Generation in High-Gain Free-Electron Lasers,” Physical Review Special Topics, Accelerators and Beams 5 (2002) 030701.

  • L.R. Skubal, S.G. Biedron, M. Newville, J.F. Schneider, S.V. Milton, P. Pianetta, H..J. O’Neill, “Mercury Transformations in Chemical Agent Simulant as Characterized by XAFS,” Talanta (The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry) 67 (2005) 730-735.

  • H.P. Freund, P.G. O’Shea, S.G. Biedron, “Nonlinear Harmonic Generation in Free-Electron Laser Oscillators,” to be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A in 2004.

  • G. Dattoli, P.L. Ottaviani, A. Renieri, S.G. Biedron, H.P. Freund and S.V. Milton, “A compact free electron laser device operating in the UV-soft X-ray region,” Optics Communications  232 (2004) 319.*

  • S.V. Milton, E. Gluskin, N.D. Arnold, C. Benson, W. Berg, S.G. Biedron, M. Borland, Y.C. Chae, R.J. Dejus, P.K. Den Hartog, B. Deriy, M. Erdmann, Z. Huang, K.J. Kim, J.W. Lewellen, Y. Li, A.H. Lumpkin, O. Makarov, E.R. Moog, A. Nassiri, V. Sajaev, R. Soliday, B.J. Tieman, E.M. Trakhtenberg, G. Travish, I.B. Vasserman, N.A. Vinokurov, G. Wiemerslage, B.X. Yang, “Measured Exponential Gain and Saturation of a Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser,” originally published in Science Express as 10.1126/science.1059955 on May 17, 2001; Science, Vol. 292, Issue 5524 (2001) 2037.

  • G. Dattoli, L. Gianessi, P.L. Ottaviani, H.P. Freund, S.G. Biedron, and S.V. Milton, “Two Harmonic Undulators and Harmonic Generation in High Gain Free Electron Lasers,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 495 (2002) 48.

  • L.-H. Yu, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, L.F. DiMauro, A. Doyuran, W. Graves, E. Johnson, S. Krinsky, R. Malone, I. Pogorelsky, J. Skaritka, G. Rakowsky, L. Solomon, X.J. Wang, M. Woodle, V. Yakimenko (BNL), S.G. Biedron, J.N. Galayda, E. Gluskin, J. Jagger, V. Sajaev, I. Vasserman (ANL), “High-Gain Harmonic Generation Free-Electron Laser,” Science 289 (2000) 932.