THE INFRASTRUCTURE
The Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS, 21 M$) was one of the three canadian project granted by the CFI Canada fund international project and consists of a femtosecond multi-beam lasers national facility.
ALLS is also a consortium of 14 canadian universities (INRS, U. Alberta, UBC, U. Calgary, U. Laval, U. McGill, U. Sherbrooke, U. Toronto, etc.), 3 government laboratories (CNRC-Steacie, CNRC-IMI, DRDC) and 17 international institutions (from which SUNY (USA), Kansas State Univ. (USA), LLNL (USA), UCLA (USA), Imperial College (UK), Ecole Polytechnique (France), Max Plank (Germany), Riken (Japan), etc.).
The central concept behind ALLS is to use multiple laser beam interactions, from X-rays to the infrared, with sufficient power to manipulate the matter and probe its dynamics. The heart of the ALLS facility is a high technology multi-beam laser system based on the most recent ultrafast Ti:Saphire technology. These various sources contribute to a « rainbow of light » wich is emitting high photon fluxes with femto- and attoseconds pulses at different wavelength.
The infrastructure is composed by:
- The multi-KHz beam-line
- The 100Hz/4TW – 10Hz/10TW beam-line
- The 200TW beam-line
- The Femtosecond X-ray diffraction, absorption and imaging system
- The Attosecond beam line
- The Laser Induced Electron Diffraction beam line
- The High field beam line
- The High Power THz beamline
