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There is a growing demand in industrial and research communities for a laboratory-scale high-brightness light sources, in a wide range of applications. At high average powers such sources are needed for industrial processing, at moderate powers – mostly for metrology, and at a lower power for qualification, inspection, testing, and R&D. Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) is one very promising technology on the lower end of the power spectrum, with the promise of a compact and energy tunable hard X-ray light source of a nearly synchrotron beam quality, and with excellent potential scalability into gamma ray spectral range. In this paper, the authors review a considerable volume of the experimental work performed to date on the ICS sources, and discuss the recent and ongoing accelerator industry efforts to commercialize the technology. In addition, an overview of the RadiaBeam internal ICS demonstrator program is presented, including its status and outlook.
