Berkeley Lab's ALS generates Femtosecond Synchrotron Radiation

Journal Article · Tue May 23 04:00:00 EDT 2000 · CERN Courier

OSTI ID:792924

Robinson, Arthur L ^[1]

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A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) team drawing its members from the Materials Sciences Division (MSD), the Center for Beam Physics in the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) has succeeded in generating 300-femtosecond pulses of synchrotron radiation at the ALS synchrotron radiation machine. Though this ''proof-of-principle'' experiment made use of visible light on a borrowed beamline, the laser ''time-slicing'' technique at the heart of the demonstration will soon be applied in a new bend-magnet beamline designed explicitly for the production of femtosecond pulses of X-rays to study long-range and local order in condensed matter with ultrafast time resolution. An undulator beamline based on the same technique has been proposed that will dramatically increase the flux and brightness.

• Research Organization: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Basic Energy Studies. Division of Materials Sciences (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 792924
• Report Number(s): LBNL--46039
• Journal Information: CERN Courier, Journal Name: CERN Courier Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 40
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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