Support by the European Community - Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area" Programme (through the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative "Integrating Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science")

Scope

The fourth generation light sources are ultrabright light sources that provide pulsed radiations in the sub-picosecond domain covering the e.m. spectrum from the infrared region up to the hard x-rays.

Nowadays, these sources are regarded as the technology on which future advances in synchrotron radiation science will be based.

In particular, the very short pulse length provided by these sources allow us to access the dynamics of processes down to few tens of femtosecond with a full control on the pulse shape, polarization, photon energy tuning and photon flux.

These, previously inaccessible complementary performances, will open unparalleled opportunities for the development of "pump-probe" experiments where the creation of transient short-living species and/or phases will be observed.

In addition, the ultra-high brightness of these sources will lead us into a new regime of high field physics where non-linear processes may be exploited.

The scope of this workshop is to bridge the science planned for the fourth generation light sources with the present-day current science and knowledge based on conventional ultrashort radiation sources.

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