Workshop on applications of coherent infrared synchrotron radiation

A workshop focused on scientific applications of and plans for a coherent far-infrared (FIR) synchrotron source at the ALS was convened on October 11, 2002, as part of the annual Advanced Light Source Users Meeting. It was organized by Michael C. Martin (ALS),Wayne McKinney (ALS), Dmitri Basov (University of California, San Diego), and Joseph Orenstein (University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley Lab). Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) presents an opportunity to create a source with intensities about six orders of magnitude higher than conventional FIR sources. This workshop was held to further explore different types of science that could be enabled by such a novel source in this traditionally difficult spectral region