Science with XUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers

The research school supported by the CNRS is motivated by the emergence of a new research direction, namely the scientific applications of the novel Free Electron Lasers in the XUV and X-ray regime. These new femtosecond (1 fs = 10^-15 sec) X-rays sources are of particular interest for the user community working at present with synchrotron radiation and/or with high order harmonics of an intense femtosecond laser.

The unprecedented characteristics of the Free Electron Lasers will have an enormous impact on dynamical studies in the X-rays regime, which are presently limited to the range of several picoseconds (1 ps = 10^-12 sec), as well as on the realization of non-linear studies in the short wavelength regime.

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