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Description
X-rays have important applications in medicine, industry and science.
In the scientific field, XFELs opened the possibility to study matter at atomic-level spatial scales and femtosecond time scales for the first time. The energy of the photons produced by XFELs is presently limited to about 25 keV.
The development of Superconducting Undulators (SCU) recently became part of the strategic programme foreseen at the European XFEL. On the one hand superconducting magnet technology would allow the production of photons with energies in the range 30-100 keV, while on the other hand the state of the art SCU technology offers a solution to cover the present range of photons in all beamlines using a fixed electron energy, thus simplifying consistently the machine set-up.
In this talk we will give an overview of some of the activities regarding the development of the SCU technology which are ongoing in the European XFEL facility, highlighting the potential of such technology for general application in Free Electron Lasers.
