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Photon Facilities
The aim of this list is to give examples of the advanced photon facilities currently running or under construction – links to more comprehensive listings are given at the bottom of the page.
UK Photon Facilities
DIAMOND – the UK’s 3rd generation electron synchrotron with photon sources from the IR to hard X-rays
www.diamond.ac.uk/
ALICE – the renamed Energy Recovery Linac Prototype, is a 4th generation development; while not a full user facility, this is a test bed for accelerator developments for 4th generation facilities and will provide light sources for science programme development
www.4gls.ac.uk/ERLP.htm
CLF – The Central Laser Facility provides access for researchers from the United Kingdom and other EU countries to large scale laser systems such as:
- Vulcan (upgrading to 10PW/30fs)
- Astra-Gemini (2 x 500TW/30fs)
- ARTEMIS (3 ultrafast synchronised beams, 7-30fs, under construction and online 2009)
- The high repetition rate STFC/BBSRC funded Lasers for Science Facility (LSF) ULTRA laser system with dual synchronised picosecond and femtosecond beams (10 kHz, 10 W, 2 ps and 40 fs fully tunable from UV to mid IR – 200 to 12000 nm) - expected on-line Winter 2008
Orion, AWE – under construction, 2PW/500fs laser for creation and study of hot dense matter
www.awe.co.uk/set/Laser_facilities.aspx
UK Partner Photon Facilities
ESRF – the European 3rd generation electron synchrotron, higher electron energy than DIAMOND, thus delivering shorter wavelength X-rays
www.esrf.eu/
X-FEL – in construction and to come online in 2014, this is the European 4th generation X-ray free electron laser facility design range 0.2 -12.4 keV
xfel.desy.de/
Other high power, short pulse photon facilities
FLASH – originally the test facility for the TESLA/XFEL project, this is now an operation 4th generation VUV-SXR free electron laser facility, design operating range 6.5-47 nm
hasylab.desy.de/facilities/flash
FERMI@Elettra – an XUV-SXR free electron laser facility, design operating range 12.4 – 124 eV, under construction beside the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste, Italy
www.elettra.trieste.it/FERMI/
LCLS – an X-ray Free electron laser, covering from 800 to 8 keV, under construction in California, due to come online in 2009
www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcls/machine.html
FELIX – an IR-FEL user facility, with a permanent UK experiment station
www.rijnhuizen.nl/research/guthz/felix_felice/
www.rijnh.nl/felix/UK/
Laser links
www.clf.rl.ac.uk/links/index.htm
www.laserlab-europe.net/partners/
