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(workshop homepage »)Workshop on Advanced Photon Sources
(June 3rd - 4th 2008)
Agenda
Tuesday June 3rd - Merrison Lecture Theatre
- 09:15Registration and Coffee
- 09:45
Welcome and NLS Overview - R.P. Walker (DLS) and J. Marangos (Imperial)
- 10:15 High power, high repetition rate lasers
- J. Collier (CLF)
- 10:45 High harmonic generation in gases
- J. Tisch (Imperial)
- 11:15Coffee
- 11:35 High harmonics from relativistically oscillating plasma surfaces
- M. Zepf (Queens, Belfast)
- 12:05Discussion
- 12:45Lunch
- 13:45 FEL stability issues in a Copper linac and experience at LCLS
- P. Emma (SLAC)
- 14:15 Potential and challenges of super-conducting linac based FELs
- R. Rimmer (presented by C. Beard)
- 14:45 HHG seeding
- M.E. Couprie (SOLEIL)
- 15:15 Cascaded HGHG sources
- B. Kuske (BESSY)
- 15:45Coffee
- 16:05 Self-Seeding
- J. Feldhaus (DESY)
- 16:35 Generation of attosecond X-ray pulses using free electron lasers
- A. Zholents (LBL)
- 17:05 Development towards ultra-short pulse, single coherent spike for SASE X-ray FELs
- S. Reiche (UCLA)
- 17:35 – 18:30 Discussion
- 19.30 for 20.00 Workshop Dinner
- Hoole Hall, Chester
Wednesday June 4th – Tower Seminar Room
- 09:00 Compton scattering photon sources
- G. Priebe (STFC)
- 09:30 Plasma as an accelerator and radiation source
- D. Jaroszynski (Strathclyde)
- 10:00Coffee
- 10:30 Managing of ultrashort pulses by time-preserving optical configurations
- L. Poletto (LUXOR)
- 11:00 Mode-locked FELs and attosecond pulse trains
- B. McNeil (Strathclyde)
- 11:30 Femtosecond synchronization for Free Electron Lasers
- H. Schlarb (DESY)
- 12:00 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
- 13:00Close of Meeting
Meeting Administrator
Mrs. Marie White (m.a.white@dl.ac.uk)
+44(0) 1925 603346
+44(0) 1925 603674
STFC Daresbury Laboratory,
Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus,
Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire. WA4 4AD
Meeting Organiser
Professor Richard P. Walker
(richard.walker@diamond.ac.uk) richard.walker@diamond.ac.uk
+44(0) 1235 778484
Diamond Light Source Ltd
Diamond House,
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE
