The soft x-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY: beamlines, diagnostics and end-stations
By K. Tiedtke, A. Azima, N. Bargen, L. Bittner, S. Bonfigt, S. Düsterer, B. Faatz, U. Frühling, M. Gensch, C. Gerth and 29 more. 2009
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FLASH, the Free-electron LASer in Hamburg, is a worldwide unique source for extremely bright ultra-short laser-like pulses tunable in a wide spectral range in the extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray region (Ackermann et al 2007 Nat. Photonics 1 336–42). To fully exploit the features of this new generation of light sources, a user facility with efficient radiation transport to the experimental area and novel online photon diagnostics capable of characterizing the unique parameters of the FLASH radiation has been built. It serves a broad user community active in many scientific fields ranging from atomic and molecular physics to plasma and solid state physics as well as chemistry and biology. A special focus is placed on the exploitation of the ultra-short FLASH pulses using pump–probe techniques. Thus, the facility is equipped with optical and THz sources synchronized to FLASH. This paper gives a detailed overview of the FLASH user facility.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiation
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- Roadmap of ultrafast x-ray atomic and molecular physics (2018, background): “In the last few years much knowledge has been accumulated in operating FEL sources and has strongly influenced the design of the upcoming sources, e.g. the European XFEL in Hamburg.”
- Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators (2013, neutral): “The first facility which has provided SASE radiation in the soft x-ray domain is the Free-Electron Laser at Hamburg (FLASH) which is currently working at wavelengths down to ¼ 6 nm (Tiedtke et al. , 2009).”
- 10 years of pioneering X-ray science at the Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY (2019, background): “25 shows the layout of the FLASH1 experimental hall (Tiedtke et al., 2009).”