A high-power laser system is to be integrated in interaction with the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC operated at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the TU Darmstadt as a source of quasi-monochromatic X-ray radiation based on so-called laser Compton backscattering.

The aim is to advance the development of LCB sources in the context of linear accelerators with energy recovery and also to establish a possibility for non-destructive beam diagnostics at S-DALINAC for accelerator development and nuclear physics experiments.