Review of fully coherent free-electron lasers

C Feng, HX Deng - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2018 - Springer
Generation of intense, fully coherent radiation with wide spectral coverage has been a long-
standing challenge for laser technologies. Several techniques have been developed in …

Ultrafast X-ray probes of elementary molecular events

D Keefer, SM Cavaletto, JR Rouxel… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Elementary events that determine photochemical outcomes and molecular functionalities
happen on the femtosecond and subfemtosecond timescales. Among the most ubiquitous …

SwissFEL: the Swiss X-ray free electron laser

CJ Milne, T Schietinger, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul
Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in …

An X-ray free-electron laser with a highly configurable undulator and integrated chicanes for tailored pulse properties

E Prat, A Al Haddad, C Arrell, S Augustin, M Boll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are state-of-the-art scientific tools capable to study matter
on the scale of atomic processes. Since the initial operation of X-ray FELs more than a …

Fresh-slice multicolour X-ray free-electron lasers

AA Lutman, TJ Maxwell, JP MacArthur, MW Guetg… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond X-ray pulses with a narrow energy
bandwidth and unprecedented brightness. Ultrafast physical and chemical dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline: Athos

R Abela, A Alarcon, J Alex, C Arrell, V Arsov… - Journal of Synchrotron …, 2019 - scripts.iucr.org
The SwissFEL soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) beamline Athos will be ready for user
operation in 2021. Its design includes a novel layout of alternating magnetic chicanes and …

Single-shot multi-keV X-ray absorption spectroscopy using an ultrashort laser-wakefield accelerator source

B Kettle, E Gerstmayr, MJV Streeter, F Albert… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Single-shot absorption measurements have been performed using the multi-keV x rays
generated by a laser-wakefield accelerator. A 200 TW laser was used to drive a laser …

Development of a hard X-ray split-and-delay line and performance simulations for two-color pump-probe experiments at the European XFEL

W Lu, B Friedrich, T Noll, K Zhou, J Hallmann… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A hard X-ray Split-and-Delay Line (SDL) under construction for the Materials Imaging and
Dynamics station at the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) is presented. This …

Perspective: Opportunities for ultrafast science at SwissFEL

R Abela, P Beaud, JA Van Bokhoven, M Chergui… - Structural …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present the main specifications of the newly constructed Swiss Free Electron Laser,
SwissFEL, and explore its potential impact on ultrafast science. In light of recent …

Frequency and spatially chirped free-electron laser pulses

S Reiche, C Bacellar, P Bougiatioti, C Cirelli… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We have produced hard x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) pulses, which are chirped both in
photon energy and in spatial position. The experiments have been carried out at the hard x …