Synchrotron Light A Physics Journey from Laboratory to Cosmos

Daniele Pelliccia, Entrepreneur and Founder, Instruments & Data Tools Pty Ltd,David M. Paganin, Adjunct Researcher, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University

Daniele Pelliccia is an experimental physicist and entrepreneur. He graduated with a master's degree in quantum optics and quantum information, and undertook his PhD research in x-ray optics and imaging. Daniele has been a staff scientist at synchrotron beamlines in Germany and Australia. During his academic career Daniele has secured a DECRA fellowship (Australia) for the development of novel x-ray microscopy techniques. Since 2017, Daniele has been a full-time entrepreneur, founding the company Instruments & Data Tools providing modelling and analytics services for industry. In 2018 Daniele founded Rubens Technologies, commercialising portable spectroscopy sensors for fruit quality assessment.


David M. Paganin is a theoretical physicist with a range of research interests in optical physics. He graduated with a PhD in 1999. David has been affiliated with Monash University since 2002, first as a lecturer and more recently as an adjunct researcher with the School of Physics and Astronomy. He is the author of Coherent X-ray Optics (OUP 2006) and co-invented several techniques in coherent imaging that are currently widely employed in the fields of x-ray synchrotron science, visible-light microscopy, and electron microscopy.

1. Prologue2. Introduction to special relativity3. Emission from accelerated charges4. Radiation emitted by charges in bending magnets5. Insertion devices6. Quantum effects in synchrotron radiation7. Quantum effects in relativistic charged-particle orbits8. The free-electron laser9. Synchrotron light in the cosmos10. Non-photon analogues of synchrotron radiation11. Calculation of synchrotron radiation from first principles12. Quantum optics of synchrotron light13. EpilogueAppendix A - Bessel-function sums and trigonometric integralsAppendix B - Planck's radiation law and radiometric quantitiesAppendix C - Schott's pioneering contributions to synchrotron lightAppendix D - Padé approximant for maximum-emission harmonic