Laser-driven photon sources and exemplary applications at ELI Beamlines (Conference Presentation)

Abstract

The ELI Beamlines project as one pillar of the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC provides laser-driven secondary sources of EUV/XUV, X-ray and relativistic charged particles offering unique pump/probe experimental schemes for dynamic studies on the ultrafast time-scale. Moreover, these sources can be coupled together offering experimental schemes beyond the IR-laser-driven pump/probe approach. While the majority of facility scientific equipment is in progress of installation, numerous secondary beamlines have already been validated. Here we present secondary sources of XUV radiation via high harmonic generation (HHG) in gases and hard X-ray Cu-Ka source as well as user endstations that were connected to the beamline. The ELI Beamlines HHG/PXS supports experiments in three scientific end stations: MAC, ELIps, and T-REX, while plasma betatron source and lUIS will serve their own beamlines and endstations.