FREE ELECTRON LASER DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA

As a development step towards constructing a hard X-ray FEL in China, a soft X-ray FEL test facility (SXFEL) was proposed under C N Yangs initial suggestion. This test facility will be built on the campus of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility and it can be converted into a user facility or a part of hard X-ray FEL in the future. This presentation describes the FEL developments in China and reports the preliminary design and status of this Chinese soft X-ray Test facility.

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