Access to attoseconds and more: DESY joins Lasers4EU

One of the five setups at DESY is now available through the Lasers4EU network.
(Photo: Attosecond Group, CFEL)

The network Lasers4EU, which helps scientists access laser lab setups across the continent, will now include five laser setups at DESY that specialise in ultrafast science. The setups are based on tabletop lasers that either are pulsed to access the attosecond timescale, or a billionth of a billionth of a second, or that generate secondary radiation that can attain ultrashort processes, or lasers that can emit simultaneously several different frequencies. DESY joins over two dozen other organisations that are part of Lasers4EU, including several Helmholtz research centres.

DESY adds five individual setups to the Lasers4EU portfolio. The installations come from the labs of DESY lead scientist Francesca Calegari, which offers user access to STARLIGHT, DESY interim director for photon science Franz Kärtner, and group leader of DESY Photonics Research and Innovation Christoph Heyl, as well as DESY head of Lasers Science and Technology Ingmar Hartl. The lasers include two attosecond setups (one in the ultraviolet range and one in the soft X-ray range), a picosecond-scale laser for high-energy material science applications, and two femtosecond-scale lasers (one of which that can separate into several colors simultaneously side by side).

More information can be found here.