In the past decade we have seen very important developments in the field of accelerator based X-ray user facilities, with the advent of 4th generation synchrotron sources and MHz rate free electron lasers. The first hard X-ray free-electron laser, LCLS (US) became operational in 2009 and over the…
Read MoreThis talk presents some key concepts of FEL operation, and highlights from the first years of FEL science: mostly in the field of condensed matter physics, but with a broad overview of other research fields as well. The goal is to give simple guidelines that will hopefully help to broaden the…
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