Abstract

The Superconducting Accelerator driven Free Electron Laser (SCA/FEL) has been established as a facility for producing picosecond photon beams. The facility is to provide between 1000 and 2000 hours of FEL beam time per year for bio-medical and materials science research, and at present is capable of operating at any wavelength between 3 μm and 350 nm. Details of the present capability will be summarized in Section 2. Interest in expanding this range in both directions is strong, and components are already on hand to extend this range to greater than 10 μm. Viable options for extending the range to at least 200 nm will be discussed in Section 3. The facilities for the experimenters using the photon beams will be discussed in Section 4.

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