PIER Photon Science Colloquium - FEL experiments in Japan: from EUV to X-rays

by Kyoshi Ueda (Tohoku University Sendai, Japan)

Friday 14 Oct 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Bldg. 28c seminar room

In 2008, the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) test accelerator started user operation in Japan. It provides linearly polarized EUVFEL pulses in the wavelength region of 51-61 nm. We have been investigating multiphoton processes in atoms, molecules, and clusters irradiated by EUVFEL pulses, using ion and electron momentum spectroscopy and pump-probe techniques. On June 7, 2011, SCSS XFEL, nicknamed SACLA, lased. It's user operation will start in March 2012. Our scientific program at the SACLA is largely based on research problems which constitute a bridge between atoms and small molecules and more complex systems. The talk will describe current status of EUVFEL experiments as well as plans and preparations for XFEL experiments.