Invited speakers

The SwissFEL X-ray Laser

Name: The SwissFEL X-ray Laser
Start: 2017-01-24T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2017-01-24T13:00:00+00:00
Location: ALBA Synchrotron

by Dr Rafael Abela (SwissFEL Project Leader Photonics and Research at PSI)

Tuesday 24 Jan 2017, 12:00 → 13:00 UTC

Maxwell Auditorium (ALBA Synchrotron)

Maxwell Auditorium

ALBA Synchrotron

Carrer de la Llum 2-26, 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)

Description

Next-generation X-ray sources, based on the X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) concept, will provide highly coherent, ultrashort pulses of soft and hard X-rays. The research applications of the ultra-short and intense pulses produced by these sources range from condensed matter and materials research, to femto-chemistry, molecular biology, atomic spectroscopy, and many more.

The Paul Scherrer Institute is building the SwissFEL which is expected to begin user operation in the year 2017. The present status of the facility and the characteristics will be presented as well as a selection of research topics.