FELS OF EUROPE is a collaboration of all free electron laser (FEL) facilities in Europe, with the goal to meet the technological and scientific challenges of these novel and rapidly developing technologies and to provide a worldwide unique, pan-European research infrastructure that enables exploiting the full scientific potential of these unique accelerator based short-pulse light sources. The collaboration is an initiative of the ESFRI projects EuroFEL and European XFEL and includes 15 facilities in 11 countries.
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31 August 2026
Steering Committee Meeting on 11-12 June 2026
The annual FELs of Europe Steering Committee (FoE SC) in person meeting took place in hybrid format at DESY in Hamburg on 11-12 June 2026.
This SC meeting was a special one as it was time to say ...
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24 February 2026
Swiss X-ray laser reveals the hidden dance of electrons
Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realised a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how electrons dance together. The technique, known as X-ray four-wave mixing, ...
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15 October 2025
Topical Workshop on Selected Problems in FEL Physics: from Soft X-rays to THz
The 3rd edition of the international FELs of Europe event, “Topical Workshop on Selected Problems in FEL Physics: from Soft X-rays to THz", has just concluded in Grado, on the northern Adriatic ...
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30 September 2025
PhotonDiag 2025 conference in Liverpool
The 7th FELs OF EUROPE Workshop on FEL Photon Diagnostics, Instrumentation, and Beamline Design took place in Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the Liverpool University Guild of Students from 2-4 ...
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20 November 2024
FELs of Europe poster prize at UFDIM 2024
The UFDIM (Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Matter) conference 2024, held at DESY in Hamburg (Germany) from 18-20 November 2024, on top of the currently upgraded FLASH, focused on new techniques for ...
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