LCLS

International Workshop on the Interactions of Intense
Sub-Picosecond X-Ray Pulses with Matter

(SLAC, January 23-24, 1997)

(SLAC Training & Conference Center A/B)


Workshop Program


1/23/97 8:00 - 8:30 1. Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 2. Arthur Bienenstock (SSRL) Welcome
8:40 - 9:15 3. Gerd Materlik (DESY)

Roman Tatchyn (SSRL)
Introduction and Background; TTF FEL Source Properties
LCLS Source Properties
Session 1 (Roman Tatchyn, Chair)
1/23/97 9:15 - 10:00 4. Richard More (LLNL) Experiments with Advanced Photon Sources (I)
10:00 - 10:30 5. Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 6. Richard More (LLNL) Experiments with Advanced Photon Sources (II)
11:15 - 12:00 7. Kazimierz Rzazewski (Inst. Of Theoretical Science, Poland) Atoms, molecules and clusters in superintense laser pulses
12:00 - 1:30 8. Lunch
Session 2 (John Arthur, Chair)
1/23/97 1:30 - 2:15 9. Brian Newnam (LANL) Review of Laser Damage of Optical Materials: Scaling from Nanosecond to Femtosecond Pulse Regimes.
2:15 - 3:00 10. Jacek Krzywinski (Polish Acad. Sci./DESY, Germany) Interactions of intense picosecond VUV pulses with matter - potential experiments during the first phase of the TTF FEL project.
3:00 - 3:30 11. Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 12. Discussion Session (Richard More, Roman Tatchyn): Theoretical and numerical work required as backup for 100-1 Å experiments on present sources and the future LCLS/TTF FEL.
6:30 13. Dinner (non-sponsored, Capriccios's in Sharon Heights Shopping Center, directions will be posted)





1/24/97 8:00 - 8:30 1. Breakfast
Session 3 (Gerd Materlik, Chair)
1/24/97 8:30 - 9:00 2. Seb Doniach (Stanford University) Limiting radiation/matter interactions in focused LCLS beams
9:00 - 10:00 3. Andreas Freund (ESRF, France) Crystal Optics for the LCLS
10:00 - 10:30 4. Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 5. Jupp Feldhaus (DESY, Germany) Power considerations for the TESLA FEL: Photon beam transport and monochromatization
11:15 - 12:00 6. Discussion session (Jupp Feldhaus, John Arthur):
Optics and instrumentation design for the actual LCLS and TTF FEL
12:00 - 1:30 7. Lunch
Session 4 (Andreas Freund, Chair)
1/24/97 1:30 - 2:15 8. Malcolm Howells (LBNL) Some ideas on testing LCLS optics without an LCLS
2:15 - 3:00 9. Eckhart Foerster (University of Jena, Germany) Bent Crystal Optics for X-ray Flash Sources
3:00 - 3:30 10. Coffee Break
3:30 - 3:55 11. Horst Schulte-Schrepping (DESY, Germany) Properties of PETRA for the characterization of optical elements for X-FEL
4:00 - 5:00 12. Discussion session (John Arthur, Roman Tatchyn): High peak power experiment design for 3rd generation and alternative sources in the 100-1 Å range

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Last Update: January 22, 1996
John Arthur, Roman Tatchyn, SSRL