The upgrade of the Advanced Light source and instrumentation development for coherent soft x-ray science

Antoine Islegen-Wojdyla

Presented in-person in Bausch & Lomb 109

Abstract

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a synchrotron user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory operating in the soft x-ray regime and serving over 2000 users a year. It will undergo a diffraction-limited storage ring upgrade in 2026 in order to provide fully coherent x-ray beams to users and new experimental capabilities. I will present the ALS-U project, related technical development and opportunities in coherent x-ray science.

Biography

Antoine Islegen-Wojdyla is a research scientist at the Advanced Light Source, where he works on optical systems in the photon science development group, and the optical designer of the new insertion device beamlines for ALS-U. He is also the principal investigator of the Dream Beam project, developing x-ray adaptive optics for automated alignment and wavefront engineering.