See: https://news.slac.stanford.edu/announcement/input-sought-lcls-facilities-plan

“This facilities plan is in response to a prior report, “New Science Opportunities Enabled by LCLS-II X-ray Lasers,” released in June, that details some important scientific questions that LCLS-II can be expected to contribute to, identifies areas of science it can explore, and proposes some specific experiments that it can undertake. Some of the science opportunities for LCLS-II are also listed at SLAC’s LCLS-II website.

The facilities plan, once finalized, will help to set priorities for the next five to 10 years of LCLS and LCLS-II operations.

LCLS managers are seeking feedback on the facilities plan from SLAC employees and from the international LCLS user community by Wednesday, Sept. 30, in order to incorporate this feedback for consideration by the LCLS Scientific Advisory Committee in October.”  

Download the plan  from: https://portal.slac.stanford.edu/sites/lcls_public/
Documents/LCLS_Strategic_Development_Plan.pdf.

“The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the United Kingdom will contribute to the European XFEL an optical laser that will generate conditions similar to the interior of Earth-like exoplanets. The £8 million (approximately 11 million euro) development and construction of the laser will be funded by STFC and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, within a grant framework overseen by Professor Justin Wark at the University of Oxford.

The laser will be manufactured, assembled, and tested in the UK by CLF and will then be shipped for the final assembly in Germany. It is part of the contributions by the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields at the European XFEL (HIBEF) user consortium and will be installed at the High Energy Density Science (HED) instrument. The UK previously has provided funding for the Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SFX) user consortium and has stated its intention to invest up to £30 million to become the European XFEL’s twelfth member state.”

For more information see: http://www.xfel.eu/news/2015/uk_contributes_a_high_energy
_optical_laser_to_hed_instrument/