The Humboldt high magnetic field center at Berlin

Abstract We introduce concept and possibilities of the HUMBOLDT High Magnetic Field Center at the Physics Department of the HUMBOLDT-University in Berlin. The facility includes steady and pulsed magnetic fields up to the megagauss regime. In detail steady magnetic fields using a superconducting solenoid up to 20 T, pulsed fields up to 50 T using nondestructive coils, and megagauss fields using the single - and multi - turn coil technique are provided. As complementary spectroscopic components optically pumped laser systems (10 μu-2.6 mm) and backwave oscillators (250 μu-7.5 mm continuously) are available.