Next Generation Light Source: Nanoscale Coherent Imaging and Microscopy with a Soft X-Ray Laser

John Corlett and Robert Schoenlein (LBNL)

This workshop will focus on scientific applications of an advanced soft x-ray FEL in the areas of coherent imaging and microscopy at the nanoscale for structural biology, advanced materials, and energy research.

LBNL is presently developing plans for an array of unique soft x-ray lasers providing temporally and spatially coherent pulses with unprecedented brightness extending beyond 1 keV.  Individual lasers/beamlines will be optimized for specific applications requiring e.g. high repetition rates, time resolution to the attosecond regime, high spectral resolution, tunability, and polarization control.

A Next Generation Light Source at LBNL (Facility Overview in pdf)

Draft Agenda (October 14, 2009)

Speakers' Abstracts

Friday, Oct. 16

  1:15

Vision for a VUV–SXR FEL Facility at LBNL

John Corlett, LBNL

  1:40

   discussion

 

  1:50

Biological Science with Soft X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Thomas Earnest, LBNL

  2:15

   discussion

 

  2:25

Ultrafast Coherent X-ray Diffraction using Free Electron Lasers

Anton Barty, CFEL

  2:50

   discussion

 

  3:00

Ankylography: Three-dimensional structure determination
from a single view

Jianwei (John) Miao, UCLA

  3:25

   discussion

 

  3:35

    break

 

  3:50

High-resolution imaging with coherent X-ray scattering

Pierre Thibault, TU Munich

  4:15

   discussion

 

  4:25

(title TBA)

Stefano Marchesini, ALS

  4:50

   discussion

 

  5:00

Correlation methods for imaging with an FEL

John Spence, ASU

  5:25

   discussion

 

  5:35

adjourn

 

Saturday, Oct. 17

8:45

Microscopy with intense pulses:  Structure, radiation chemistry, and photochemistry via pump-probe imaging

Chris Jacobsen
Stony Brook

9:10

   discussion

 

9:20

Mapping the conformations of biological assemblies

Abbas Ourmazd, UWM

9:45

   discussion

 

9:55

The future of biology at light sources

Carolyn Larabell,
LBNL, UCSF

10:20

   discussion

 

10:30

   break

 

10:45

Coherent Diffraction and Proj. Imaging: DiProI at FERMI@ELETTRA and complementary synchrotron-based microscopy

M. Kiskinova,
ELETTRA

11:10

   discussion

 

11:20

(title TBA)

Anne Sakdinawat,
CXRO-LBNL

11:45

   discussion

 

11:55

Making diffraction microscopy faster, easier and more unique: the road to NGLS

David Shapiro,
NSLS, BNL

12:20

   discussion

 

12:30

(title TBA)

Janos Hajdu, Uppsala U.

12:55

   discussion

 

1:05

adjourn