Speaker:
Jeff Rifkin Lyncean Technologies, Inc.

Title:
"The Compact Light Source: A Miniature Synchrotron Light Source for the Homelab"

Abstract:
 During the past 30 years, synchrotron light sources have become the x-ray probe of choice for physicists, chemists, biologists and research physicians. With their high-quality, intense x-ray beams, these national research facilities have spawned a broad array of applications. Past research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has led to a new concept for a synchrotron x-ray source that can substantially reduce its size - by a factor of about 200. The compact size is achieved using a laser undulator and a miniature electron-beam storage ring and results in a photon flux on a sample, comparable to the flux of the highly productive synchrotron beamlines. This research spawned a new corporation, Lyncean Technologies, Inc. which has developed the Compact Light Source (CLS). The CLS is a tunable, homelab x-ray source, with up to three beamlines that can be used like the x-ray beamlines at the large synchrotron laboratories. The Compact Light Source will bring the quality, tunability and flux of a synchrotron beam line into an x-ray scientist’s local laboratory. With funding from the NIGMS Protein Structure Initiative, a prototype of this source has been built, and is now being commissioned.

Host:
John Carlsten