Speaker
Aldo Mozzanica
(PSI)
Description
In the last years a large development effort has taken place in the photon science community around the world to develop detectors for existing and upcoming X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facilities. XFELs have very short X-ray pulses ( ~100 fs) with a very high intensity (10^12) and, depending on the facility a high repetition rate of up to 4.5 MHz. The detectors usually aim to achieve single photon sensitivity (i.e. require a very low noise) and a dynamic range of 10^4-10^5 photons. To achieve this conflicting requirements different concepts have been developed by the different groups. In this presentation I will give an overview over the different developments.
Author
Aldo Mozzanica
(PSI)
Co-author
Bernd Schmitt
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
