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SYCP: Symposium Charged particles in ultra-short fields

SYCP 1: Charged particles in ultra-fast fields

SYCP 1.7: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 31, 2011, 17:30–18:00, HS D

Experiments on ultrafast electron dynamics in solids at FLASH — •Wilfried Wurth — Physics Department and Center for Free Electron Laser Science, University of Hamburg, Germany

FLASH, the Free-Electron Laser at DESY in Hamburg is a world-wide unique facility delivering intense ultra-short coherent radiation pulses in the wavelength range between 47 and 4.5 nm. Since 2005 FLASH has been operating as a user facility serving a large variety of experiments. The unprecedented brilliance of the femtosecond coherent pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and soft x-ray regime has been used to study nonlinear process in laser-matter interaction for atoms and molecules, to gain new insights in the properties of matter under extreme conditions and to perform single shot lens-less imaging of nano-sized objects. Furthermore, the pulse duration of less than 30 femtoseconds has allowed to gain new insights in ultrafast dynamics of matter. In the talk I will review opportunities to study ultrafast electron dynamics in solids using time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy and give examples of highlight experiments.

This work is supported by BMBF through the priority program FSP-301 "FLASH: Matter in the Light of Ultrashort and Extremely Intense X-ray Pulses"