Dr. Jiawei Yan was awarded the 2,000-euro prize for young scientists for the development of methods for generating ultrashort high-power pulses at the SASE2 line of the European XFEL.
He and a team from the FEL Physics group of the European XFEL and the MXL group at DESY, which is responsible for the operation of the XFEL, developed a method to achieve remarkably sharp current profiles with high peak currents.
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Image: Marc Simon, Co-Chair of the User Organization Executive Committee, ceremonially presents the award to Jiawei Yan.
Credit: European XFEL