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

Room check in at Harnack Haus starts at 3:00 PM

Registration

Introduction Session

1 Welcome address & Introduction to MPS and FHI

Speaker: Gerard Meijer (FHI)

2 History of FELs: From Stanford to FHI

Speaker: Bill Colson

Dinner

Abendessen

Get Together

Monday, 29 July

Facilities: FHI FEL Session

3 FHI FEL Upgrade

Speaker: Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

4 Experience from 10 years of operating

Speaker: Sandy Gewinner

5 FHI FEL Simulations

Speaker: Bill Colson

10:30 Coffee Break

Application 2: 2-color experiments: Users

2-color user experiments

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

6 IR FEL microscopy and planned 2-color experiments

Speaker: Alex Paarmann (Fritz Haber Institute)

7 TITLE TBD (about 2-color experiments in solids)

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

Speaker: Nils Dessmann

8 2D IR in He droplets

Speaker: America Torres (FHI)

Dinner: Lunch

Abendessen

Facilities: Fac

Convener: Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

9 TITLE TBD (on SASE IR FEL at Pitz Zeuthen) Speaker TBC

Speaker: Mikhail Krasilinikov

10 POLFEL Overview; first FEL in Poland

Speaker: N.N.

11 TITLE TBD (TELBE status and prospects)

Speaker: Michael Klopf

16:00 Coffee Break

Technical aspects of IR FEL's

12 TITLE TBD (on selected aspects of IR FEL engineering design)

Speaker: John Rathke

13 FELIX control system

Speaker: Victor Claessen

14 RF Technolgies for IR FEL's

Speaker: Marco De Pas

15 EPICS control system for IR FEL's

Speaker: Heinz Junkes (Fritz-Haber-Institut)

Dinner

Abendessen

Tuesday, 30 July

Facilities

16 Overview of Waterloo IR FEL Facility

Speaker: Scott Hopkins

17 TITLE TBD (CLIO Overview)

Speaker: Debora Scuderi

18 TITLE TBD (on ELBE / DALI-Upgrade)

Speaker: Ulf Lehnert

10:30 Coffee Break

Applications of IR radiation

19 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

20 Univ. Waterloo research in collaboration with FELIX

Speaker: Christian Ieritano

21 Wavelength tuning in linac-driven waveguide FELs

Speaker: Lex van der Meer

Dinner: Lunch

Abendessen

Application 2: 2-color experiments: Application of 2-color FEL radiation

2-color user experiments

Convener: Alex Paarmann (Fritz Haber Institute)

22 FELIX User / MP RU Center

Speaker: N.N.

23 TITLE TBD (on water flat jet investigated by IR FEL radiation)

Speaker: Giulia Carini

24 TITLE TBD (on vibrational spectroscopy of gas phase clusters)

Speakers: Francine Horn, Tatiana Penna

16:00 Coffee Break

User Experiments: User Experiments 2

25 TITLE TBD (on surface action spectroscopy with IR FEL radiation)

Speaker: Helmut Kuhlenbeck (FHI)

26 Far infrared spectroscopy of clusters of PAHs in the gas-phase

Speaker: Piero Ferrari Ramirez (FELIX)

27 Carbo-cations in He nanodroplets

Speaker: Gert von Helden (FHI MP Department)

28 Cryogenic IR spectroscopy of bio-molecules by Pagel Group

Speaker: N.N.

Dinner

Abendessen

Wednesday, 31 July

Application 2: 2-color experiments: 2-color User Experiments

2-color user experiments

29 Electron diffraction experiments at University of Waterloo

Speaker: Germán Sciaini

30 TBD

31 TBD

10:30 Coffee Break

Applications of IR radiation: User Experiments: From bio-molecules to catalytic clusters

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

Speaker: David Nesbitt

33 TBD

Speaker: N.N.

34 TBD

Speaker: N.N.

Dinner: Lunch

Abendessen

Lab Tour at FHI