RIKEN SPring-8 Center Innovative Synchrotron Radiation Facility Division

Research Summary

The Innovative Synchrotron Radiation Facility Division focuses on technical developments and upgrade for the best SPring-8 synchrotron radiation (SR) facility, and schemes for a next generation light source.

Main Research Fields

• Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Related Research Fields

• Engineering
• Informatics
• Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering

Selected Publications

• 1. S. Yamamoto, Y. Senba, T. Tanaka, H. Ohashi, T. Hirono, H. Kimura et al.:
  "New soft X-ray beamline BL07LSU at SPring-8"
  J. Synchrotron Rad., 21 (2014) 352
• 2. T. Hara, Y. Inubushi, T. Katayama, T. Sato, H. Tanaka, T. Tanaka et al.:
  "Two-colour hard X-ray free-electron laser with wide tunability"
  Nature Comm., 4 (2013) 2919
• 3. K. Tamasaku, M. Nagasono, H. Iwayama, E. Shigemasa, Y. Inubushi, T. Tanaka et al.:
  "Double Core-Hole Creation by Sequential Attosecond Photoionization"
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 111 (2013) 043001
• 4. T. Tanaka:
  "Proposal for a Pulse-Compression Scheme in X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers to Generate a Multiterawatt, Attosecond X-Ray Pulse"
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 110 (2013) 084801
• 5. H. Yumoto, H. Mimura, T. Koyama, S. Matsuyama, K. Tono, et al.:
  "Focusing of X-ray free electron laser pulses with reflective optics"
  Nature Photon., 7 (2013) 43
• 6. T. Tanaka, S. Goto, T. Hara, T. Hatsui, H. Ohashi, et el.:
  "Undulator commissioning by characterization of radiation in x-ray free electron lasers"
  Phys. Rev. ST-AB, 15 (2012) 110701
• 7. Y. Inubushi, K. Tono, T. Togashi, T. Sato, T. Hatsui, et al.:
  "Determination of the Pulse Duration of an X-Ray Free Electron Laser Using Highly Resolved Single-Shot Spectra"
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 109 (2012) 144801
• 8. T. Ishikawa, H. Aoyagi, T. Asaka, Y. Asano, N. Azumi, et al.:
  "A compact X-ray free-electron laser emitting in the sub-angstrom region"
  Nature Photon., 6 (2012) 540
• 9. T. Tanaka and H. Kitamura:
  "A new undulator scheme providing various polarization states with low on-axis power density"
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A659 (2011) 537
• 10. T. Tanaka and H. Kitamura:
  "Composite period undulator to improve the wavelength tunability of free electron lasers"
  Phys. Rev. ST-AB, 14 (2011) 050701

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