Speaker
Dr
Lutz Winkelmann
(DESY)
Description
Ultrafast lasers are one of the enabling technologies for X-ray and XUV FEL
facilities. The requirements for those facilities’ daily operation and
experiments place challenging demands on the stability and versatile
configuration of ultrafast optical lasers for the FEL electron source, for
FEL seeding and for pump-probe experiments. We will give an overview of
recent ultrafast laser developments for the X-ray FEL facilities FLASH and
European XFEL in Hamburg and discuss how the requirements for future FEL
facilities and future compact electron- or laser driven X-ray and XUV
sources will push the frontiers for high peak and average power, precision
timing, and stability and reliability of ultrafast lasers. Here we
identified within Helmholtz a substantial overlap in future technology
requirements in the programs “From Matter to Materials and Life” (MML),
“Accelerator R&D” (ARD) and “Space”, providing ample opportunity for
collaborations and joint efforts.
Primary author
Dr
Lutz Winkelmann
(DESY)
