Infrared Free-Electron Lasers: The State of the Art 2024

28 Jul 2024, 14:00 → 31 Jul 2024, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Harnack Haus

Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

A symposium entitled "Infrared Free-Electron Lasers: The State of the Art 2024" will bring together machine scientists and users of IR FELs to celebrate 10 years of the FHI FEL Facility as well as the successful commissioning of the 2-color FHI FEL Upgrade. It will take place from July 28th to 31st, 2024 in the Harnack Haus next to the FHI campus in Berlin, Germany. 

Sunday, 28 July

15:00 → 17:00 Room check in at Harnack Haus starts at 3:00 PM

17:00 → 18:00 Registration

18:00 → 19:00 Introduction Session

18:00 Welcome address & Introduction to MPS and FHI

Speaker: Gerard Meijer (FHI)

18:30 History of FELs: From Stanford to FHI

Speaker: Bill Colson

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Abendessen

20:00 → 21:00 Get Together

Monday, 29 July

09:00 → 10:30 Facilities: FHI FEL 2-color upgrade

09:00 FHI FEL Upgrade

Speaker: Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

09:40 Experience from 10 years of operating

Speaker: Sandy Gewinner

10:05 FHI FEL Simulations

Speaker: Bill Colson

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:45 Application 2: 2-color experiments: Users

2-color user experiments

Conveners: Gert von Helden (FHI MP Department), Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

11:00 IR FEL microscopy and planned 2-color experiments

Speaker: Alex Paarmann (Fritz Haber Institute)

11:35 TITLE TBD (about 2-color experiments in solids)

FELIX pump-probe experiments / 2-color FEL (FELIX-FLARE)

Speaker: Nils Dessmann

12:10 2D IR in He droplets

Speaker: America Torres (FHI)

13:00 → 14:00 Dinner: Lunch

Abendessen

14:15 → 16:00 Facilities: Facilities: CLIO, WaterFEL, PolFEL

Convener: Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

14:15 Overview of Waterloo IR FEL Facility

Speaker: Scott Hopkins

14:50 TITLE TBD (CLIO Overview)

Speaker: Debora Scuderi

15:25 POLFEL Overview; first FEL in Poland

Speaker: N.N.

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Technical aspects of IR FEL's

16:30 TITLE TBD (on selected aspects of IR FEL engineering design)

Speaker: John Rathke

17:00 FELIX control system

Speaker: Victor Claessen

17:30 RF Technolgies for IR FEL's

Speaker: Marco De Pas

18:00 EPICS control system for IR FEL's

Speaker: Heinz Junkes (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Abendessen

Tuesday, 30 July

09:00 → 10:30 Facilities: ELBE/DALI Dresden-Rossendorf, FLARE Nijmegen, PITZ Zeuthen

09:00 Dresden Advanced Light Infrastructure (DALI) - conceptual facility design

Speaker: Ulf Lehnert

09:30 Wavelength tuning in linac-driven waveguide FELs

Speaker: Lex van der Meer

10:00 TITLE TBD (on SASE IR FEL at Pitz Zeuthen) Speaker TBC

Speaker: Mikhail Krasilinikov

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:45 Applications of IR radiation

11:00 FELIX-2 upgrade & small molecule identification for Police

FELIX-2 upgrade; small molecule identification (and its lab infrastructure), with identification for Police

Speaker: Giel Berden

11:35 Univ. Waterloo research in collaboration with FELIX

Speaker: Christian Ieritano

12:10 TITLE TBD (TELBE status and prospects)

Speaker: Michael Klopf

13:00 → 14:00 Dinner: Lunch

Abendessen

14:15 → 16:00 Application 2: 2-color experiments: Application of 2-color FEL radiation

2-color user experiments

Convener: Alex Paarmann (Fritz Haber Institute)

14:15 FELIX User / MP RU Center

Speaker: N.N.

14:50 TITLE TBD (on water flat jet investigated by IR FEL radiation)

Speaker: Giulia Carini

15:25 TITLE TBD (on vibrational spectroscopy of gas phase clusters)

Speakers: Francine Horn, Tatiana Penna

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:50 User Experiments: User Experiments 2

16:30 TITLE TBD (on surface action spectroscopy with IR FEL radiation)

Speaker: Helmut Kuhlenbeck (FHI)

17:05 Far infrared spectroscopy of clusters of PAHs in the gas-phase

Speaker: Piero Ferrari Ramirez (FELIX)

17:40 Carbo-cations in He nanodroplets

Speaker: Gert von Helden (FHI MP Department)

18:15 Cryogenic IR spectroscopy of bio-molecules by Pagel Group

Speaker: N.N.

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Abendessen

Wednesday, 31 July

09:00 → 10:30 Application 2: 2-color experiments: 2-color User Experiments

2-color user experiments

09:00 Electron diffraction experiments at University of Waterloo

Speaker: Germán Sciaini

09:30 TBD

10:00 Title TBD -- Results from the Duncan Lab

Speaker: Michael Duncan

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:50 Applications of IR radiation: User Experiments: From bio-molecules to catalytic clusters

11:00 TITLE TBD (a presentation on non-FEL based spectroscopies and/or dynamics)

Speaker: David Nesbitt

11:35 TBD

Speaker: David Rayner

12:10 TBD

Speaker: Stuart Mackenzie

13:00 → 14:00 Dinner: Lunch

Abendessen

14:30 → 18:00 Lab Tour at FHI