FLS2006

14 May 2006, 17:00 → 19 May 2006, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (DESY)

Sunday, 14 May

17:00 → 19:00 Registration

18:00 → 20:00 Welcome Reception

Monday, 15 May

09:00 → 18:00 Registration

10:00 → 12:00 Laboratory Visit

12:00 → 14:00 lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 Plenary Session 1

14:00 Welcome and Introduction

14:30 First Experimental Experience at FLASH

Speaker: Wilfried Wurth

15:00 Energy Recovery Linac Experimental Challenges

Speaker: Don Bilderback (Cornell University)

15:30 Trends in X-ray Synchrotron Radiation Research

Speaker: Jochen Schneider (DESY)

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Plenary Session 1

16:30 Design Considerations for Table-Top FELs

Speaker: Florian Gruener (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Muenchen)

17:00 Working Group Organisation

Tuesday, 16 May

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session 1

09:00 Trends in XUV Synchrotron Radiation Research on Atoms, Molecules and Clusters

Speaker: Svante Svensson

09:30 Inverse Compton Scattering: A Small Revolution in X-ray Sources and Applications

Speaker: David Moncton

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

11:00 Discussion of the Design of the NSLS-II Storage Ring

Speaker: Samuel Krinsky

11:20 Statistical Optics and partially coherent X-ray beams in third generation light sources

Speaker: Gianluca Geloni

11:40 Discussion: What ring source parameters may lead to new science?

11:00 → 12:00 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

11:00 Overview of critical ERL issues

Speakers: Georg Hoffstaetter, Susan Smith

11:10 The JLab High Power ERL Light Source – Status and Plans

Speaker: George Neil

11:35 Status of the Cornell x-ray ERL project

Speaker: Georg Hoffstaetter

11:00 → 12:00 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

11:00 A Versatile UV-VUV Light Source Based on a High Gain Distributed Optical Klystron FEL

Speaker: Ying Wu

11:25 Experimental Studies of Optical Guiding, Efficiency Improvement and Pulse Length Control in a laser seeded FEL Amplifier at the NSLS SDL

Speaker: Xijie Wang

11:00 → 12:00 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

11:00 Introduction to the benchmark problem

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Krasilnikov (DESY)

11:30 Simulations with ASTRA on the Benchmark Problem

Speaker: Velizar Miltchev

11:00 → 12:00 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

11:00 Beam Dynamics of the Compression Process

Speaker: Torsten Limberg

11:25 Feedback Concepts: Experience at SPPS, LCLS Plans

Speaker: Patrik Krejcik

12:30 → 13:30 lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Poster Session

14:00 → 16:00 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

14:00 High Current Effects in the NSLS-II Storage Ring

Speaker: Boris Podobedov

14:20 Study of Dynamic Aperture for PETRA III Ring

Speaker: Yongjun Li

14:40 Discussion: Can we go beyond the state of the art sources?

14:00 → 16:00 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

14:00 Status of 4GLS ERL project

Speaker: Susan Smith

14:30 Status of the ERL projects at KEK and JAEA

Speaker: Shogo Sakanaka (KEK)

15:00 Optimal compression and bunch linearization schemes

Speaker: Hywel Owen

15:30 Space charge compensation and optimal mergers

Speaker: Ryoichi Hajima

14:00 → 16:00 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

14:00 Operational experience and recent results from FLASH

Speaker: Evgeny Schneidmiller

14:25 Dispersion measurement and correction in the VUV-FEL

Speaker: Eduard Prat

14:40 Beam Dynamics Experiments and Analysis in FLASH (VUV FEL) on CSR and Space Charge effects

Speaker: Bolko Beutner

14:55 Beam Physics Highlights of the Fermi@Elettra Project

Speaker: Simone Di Mitri

15:20 Optical klystron enhancement to SASE x-ray FELs

Speaker: Dr Zhirong Huang (SLAC)

14:00 → 16:00 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

14:00 Simulations with GPT on the Benchmark Problem

Speaker: Bas van der Geer

14:20 Last Minute Contributions, Discussions and Working Time on benchmark Problem

14:00 → 16:00 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

14:00 Synchronization System for the XFEL

Speaker: Holger Schlarb

14:25 Recent developments and layout of the master laser system for the VUV-FEL

Speaker: Axel Winter

14:50 LBL Style Synchronisation System

Speaker: John Byrd

15:15 Compact ultra-high precision beam phase monitor system

Speaker: Florian Loehl

15:35 Timing Issues for the BESSY Femtoslicing Source

Speaker: Shaukat Khan

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

16:30 Beam Physics Issues in CANDLE Synchrotron Light Source Project

Speaker: Vasili Tsakanov

16:50 Discussion: Can we go beyond the state of the art sources?

16:30 → 18:00 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

16:30 Diagnostic necessities

Speaker: Kevin Jordan

17:00 What Should Start to End Simulations for Light Source ERLs Be Sure to Include?

Speaker: Michael Abo-Bakr

17:30 Beam abort strategies and beam loss tolerances

Speaker: Georg Neil

16:30 → 18:00 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

16:30 Quantum Regime of SASE FELs

Speaker: Nicola Piovella

16:55 Experience with Start-to-End Tolerance Studies in HGHG FEL Cascades

Speaker: Bettina Kuske

17:20 Start-to-End Simulations for the European XFEL

Speaker: Martin Dohlus

16:30 → 18:00 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

16:30 Advantages of the superconducting 3½ cell SRF gun in Rossendorf

Speaker: Friedrich Staufenbiel

16:55 High-Brightness Source R&Ds for a XFEL development in the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL)

Speaker: Sung Ju Park

17:20 Laser System of Photocathode RF Gun in Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

Speaker: Changbum Kim

16:30 → 18:00 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

16:30 Time-resolved Measurements using a Transversely Deflecting RF-Structure

Speaker: Michael Roehrs

16:55 Longitudinal Diagnostics with THz Radiation

Speaker: Hossein Delsim-Hashemi

17:15 Status of the Optical Replica Synthesizer Project at DESY

Speaker: Volker Ziemann

Wednesday, 17 May

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session 2

09:00 CW Superconducting RF for Future Linac-Based Light Sources

Speaker: Jens Knobloch (BESSY)

09:30 Synchronization and Timing Challenges for Future Light Sources

Speaker: Graeme Hirst (CCLRC)

10:00 Short Radiation Pulses in Storage Rings

Speaker: Shaukat Khan (Hamburg University / BESSY)

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Session 2

11:00 Attosecond Pulses in XFELs

Speaker: Evgeny Saldin (DESY)

11:30 Seeding and Harmonic Generation in Free Electron Lasers

Speaker: Luca Giannessi (ENEA)

12:30 → 14:00 lunch break

15:30 → 17:30 Excursion: Boat Trip on the Alster and Elbe

18:30 → 22:00 Banquet

Thursday, 18 May

09:00 → 10:30 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

09:10 Status of APS short pulse project

Speaker: Dr Katherine Harkay (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:25 Discussion: Can we go beyond the state of the art sources? (short pulses)

09:00 → 10:30 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

09:00 Vacuum and Aperture Needs for Energy-Recovery Linac Light Sources

Speaker: Ryoichi Hajima

09:30 What are advantages and limits of multi turn ERLs?

Speaker: Joe Bisignano

09:00 → 10:30 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

09:00 Commissioning plans for the LCLS

Speaker: James Welch

09:25 SPARX proposal

Speaker: Cristina Vaccarezza

09:50 Shanghai DUV-FEL progress

Speaker: Zhimin Dai

10:15 Single Bunch Emittance Preservation in XFEL Linac

Speaker: Vasili Tsakanov

09:00 → 10:30 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

09:00 Transverse to Longitudinal Emittance Exchange to Improve Performance of High-Gain x-Ray Free Electron Laser

Speaker: Prof. Kwang-Je Kim (APS)

09:35 Commissioning of SPARC Photo-Injector

Speaker: Daniele Filippetto

10:00 An estimation of dark current at the European XFEL gun

Speaker: Jang Hui Han

09:00 → 10:30 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

09:00 An Intra Bunch Train Feedback System for the European XFEL

Speaker: Boris Keil

09:25 Conceptual Fast Orbit Feedback Design for PETRA III

Speaker: Gajendra Sahoo

09:45 Large Aperture BPM for use in Dispersive Regions of Magnetic Chicanes

Speaker: Kirsten Hacker

10:05 Cavity BPMs for LCLS

Speaker: Patrik Krejcik

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

11:00 Discussion: What critical accelerator technologies require development?

11:00 → 12:00 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

11:00 Limits on the Bandwidth for SRF Cavities for ERL Linacs

Speaker: Jens Knobloch

11:30 Optimal cavity parameters for ERL light sources

Speaker: Mike Dykes

11:00 → 12:30 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

11:00 An Analysis of Nonlinear Harmonic Generation

Speaker: Quika Jia

11:15 Analysis of Spontaneous Emission and its Self-Amplification in Free-Electron Laser

Speaker: Quika Jia

11:30 Discussion on the feasability of Table-Top XFELs

11:00 → 12:30 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

11:30 Discussion on feasability of Table-Top XFELs

11:00 → 12:00 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

11:00 Electro-optical measurements of the longitudinal bunch shape at FLASH

Speaker: Bernd Steffen

11:20 Femtosecond Data Reconstruction at FELS Using EOS

Speaker: Adrian Cavalieri

11:40 Timing Concepts for the FERMI Facility

Speaker: Mario Ferianis

12:30 → 13:30 lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Poster Session

14:00 → 16:00 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

14:00 Future possibilities at the ESRF

Speaker: Annick Ropert

14:15 Discussion: Upgrades of existing sources: what is feasible?

15:00 Discussion: Is it worth building cost-effective but lower performing rings?

14:00 → 16:00 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

14:00 What are good beam stabilization strategies and their limits for light source ERLs?

Speaker: Christoph Steier

14:30 Undulators Issues for ERLs

Speaker: Jim Clarke

15:00 Critical issues common to all ERL projects

Speakers: Georg Hoffstaetter, Susan Smith

15:30 Coordination of discussions and report writing

Speaker: Georg Hoffstaetter

14:00 → 16:00 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

14:00 HHG seeding and the 4GLS XUVFEL

Speaker: Brian Sheehy

14:25 Simulation studies on the self-seeding option at FLASH

Speaker: Velizar Miltchev

14:50 Fully coherent X-ray pulses from a regenerative Amplifier FEL

Speaker: Zhirong Huang

15:15 Femtosecond synchronism of x-rays and light in an x-ray free-electron laser

Speaker: Bernhard Adams

14:00 → 16:00 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

14:00 Production of ultra-short, high-brightness waterbag bunches

Speaker: Bas van der Geer

14:25 Low Emittance Electron Guns Employing the LaB6 Single Crystal Cathode

Speaker: Hiroyuki Hama

14:50 Proposal of a Photocathode Impulse-Gun and Followed by Impulse Accelerating Structures to Produce Low Emittance Electron Beam

Speaker: Yoshitaka Kawashima

15:15 Jitter study of the Gun output beam for the FERMI@ELETTRA photoinjecto

Speaker: Mauro Trovo

15:40 Ramping current distribution option for the FERMI@ELETTRA photoinjector

Speaker: Guiseppe Penco

14:00 → 16:00 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

14:00 Basic Tools for SASE Commissioning

Speaker: Vitali Kocharyan

14:25 Synchrotron Radiation Based Transverse Emittance Diagnostics At Light Sources

Speaker: Gero Kube

14:45 Machine Protection System for PETRA

Speaker: Matthias Werner

15:05 Experience from the commissioning of the FLASH machine protection system

Speaker: Lars Froehlich

15:25 Post-Linac Collimation System for the European XFEL

Speaker: Nina Golubeva

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 WG1 Storage Ring based Light Sources

16:30 Proposal of a Synchrotron Radiation Facility to Supply Ultraviolet Light, X-ray, MeV-photon, GeV-photon and Neutron

Speaker: Yoshitaka Kawashima

16:50 Featuring the Characteristics of the Super Coherent Teraherz Photon Ring

Speaker: Hiroyuki Hama

17:10 Discussion: Should we build multipurpose or specialized sources?

17:35 Discussion: How might specialized compact sources impact existing sources?

16:30 → 18:00 WG2 Energy Recovery Linacs

16:30 Discussion and Report Writing

16:30 → 18:00 WG3 Free Electron Lasers

16:30 Flat Electron Beams for a Smith-Purcell Backward Wave Oscillator for Intense Terahertz Radiation

Speaker: Kwang-Je Kim

16:55 Design of the Thomson Source at SPARC/PLASMONX for incoherent and coherent X-rays

Speaker: Luca Serafini

17:20 Production of coherent X-rays with a free-electron laser based on optical wiggler

Speaker: Cesare Maroli

16:30 → 18:00 WG4 Low emittance electron sources

16:30 Iteration on Benchmark Problem Results worked out during the Workshop

16:30 → 18:00 WG5 Diagnostics and Stability

16:30 X-ray Pulse Length Characterization Using the Surface Magneto Optic Kerr Effect

Speaker: Patrik Krejcik

16:55 Discussion / Reserve

Friday, 19 May

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session 3

09:00 WG 1 Summary

09:30 WG 2 Summary

10:00 WG 3 Summary

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Session 3

11:00 WG 4 Summary

11:30 WG 5 Summary

12:00 ICFA Sub-panel Statement and Close Out