Conveners
Photon beamline instrumentation & undulators
- Jan Grünert (European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser)
The implementation of a helical afterburner undulator at DESY's VUV-FEL source is part of the current FLASH2020+ upgrade program. The device shall be installed downstream of the present FLASH2 SASE undulators and will provide radiation with variable polarization from 1.33 nm to 1.77 nm (890-700eV) and thus also cover the L-edges of the 3d transition metals Fe, Co, and Ni. Despite a moderate...
The XFELs with an anomalously high peak brilliance are opening the way to a number of novel X-ray photon research paths. At SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free-Electron Laser (SACLA) [1], the XFEL pulses with high stability and short pulse duration (6-7 fs) have been regularly provided thanks to the unique electron gun, accelerator, and undulator systems [2]. By focusing these XFELs to 1um-100nm,...
Cavity-Based X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (CBXFELs) employ an X-ray cavity formed by crystal mirrors such that X-ray pulses receive periodic FEL-amplification and Bragg-monochromatization. CBXFELs enable improved longitudinal coherence and spectral brightness over single-pass self-amplification of spontaneous radiation (SASE) FELs [1,2] for high-repetition rate FELs. Construction and alignment...
Free-electron lasers (FELs) are currently the most advanced class of light sources, by virtue of their unique capability to lase high-brightness and ultrashort pulses characterized by wavelengths spanning the Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV), the Soft (SXR) and Hard (HXR) X-Ray spectral domains, alongside with temporal duration lying in the femtosecond (fs) timescale [1]. Specifically, the advent of...
