scholarly journals The free-electron laser FLASH

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siegfried Schreiber ◽  
Bart Faatz
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Short Pulses ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Pump And Probe ◽  
User Facility ◽  
Diffraction Imaging

FLASH at DESY, Hamburg, Germany is the first free-electron laser (FEL) operating in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray wavelength range. FLASH is a user facility providing femtosecond short pulses with an unprecedented peak and average brilliance, opening new scientific opportunities in many disciplines. The first call for user experiments has been launched in 2005. The FLASH linear accelerator is based on TESLA superconducting technology, providing several thousands of photon pulses per second to user experiments. Probing femtosecond-scale dynamics in atomic and molecular reactions using, for instance, a combination of x-ray and optical pulses in a pump and probe arrangement, as well as single-shot diffraction imaging of biological objects and molecules, are typical experiments performed at the facility. We give an overview of the FLASH facility, and describe the basic principles of the accelerator. Recently, FLASH has been extended by a second undulator beamline (FLASH2) operated in parallel to the first beamline, extending the capacity of the facility by a factor of two.

scholarly journals Data processing software suiteSITENNOfor coherent X-ray diffraction imaging using the X-ray free-electron laser SACLA

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Sekiguchi ◽  
Tomotaka Oroguchi ◽  
Yuki Takayama ◽  
Masayoshi Nakasako
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Diffraction Imaging ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Ccd Detectors

Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging is a promising technique for visualizing the structures of non-crystalline particles with dimensions of micrometers to sub-micrometers. Recently, X-ray free-electron laser sources have enabled efficient experiments in the `diffraction before destruction' scheme. Diffraction experiments have been conducted at SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron LAser (SACLA) using the custom-made diffraction apparatus KOTOBUKI-1 and two multiport CCD detectors. In the experiments, ten thousands of single-shot diffraction patterns can be collected within several hours. Then, diffraction patterns with significant levels of intensity suitable for structural analysis must be found, direct-beam positions in diffraction patterns determined, diffraction patterns from the two CCD detectors merged, and phase-retrieval calculations for structural analyses performed. A software suite namedSITENNOhas been developed to semi-automatically apply the four-step processing to a huge number of diffraction data. Here, details of the algorithm used in the suite are described and the performance for approximately 9000 diffraction patterns collected from cuboid-shaped copper oxide particles reported. Using theSITENNOsuite, it is possible to conduct experiments with data processing immediately after the data collection, and to characterize the size distribution and internal structures of the non-crystalline particles.

Free-electron laser multiplex driven by a superconducting linear accelerator

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1070-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Plath ◽  
Philipp Amstutz ◽  
Jörn Bödewadt ◽  
Günter Brenner ◽  
Nagitha Ekanayake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Linear Accelerator ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Free Electron Lasers ◽  
X Ray ◽  
User Facility ◽  
20 Nm ◽  
Simultaneous Lasing

Free-electron lasers (FELs) generate femtosecond XUV and X-ray pulses at peak powers in the gigawatt range. The FEL user facility FLASH at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) is driven by a superconducting linear accelerator with up to 8000 pulses per second. Since 2014, two parallel undulator beamlines, FLASH1 and FLASH2, have been in operation. In addition to the main undulator, the FLASH1 beamline is equipped with an undulator section, sFLASH, dedicated to research and development of fully coherent extreme ultraviolet photon pulses using external seed lasers. In this contribution, the first simultaneous lasing of the three FELs at 13.4 nm, 20 nm and 38.8 nm is presented.

scholarly journals All-optical single shot complete electric field measurement of extreme ultraviolet free electron laser pulses

Optica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Peters ◽  
Travis Jones ◽  
Anatoly Efimov ◽  
Emanuele Pedersoli ◽  
Laura Foglia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Free Electron ◽  
Field Measurement ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Laser Pulses ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Electric Field Measurement ◽  
All Optical

scholarly journals Switching of the harmonic order in free-electron lasers by controlling the density modulation of an electron bunch

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 1317-1322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihiro Sei ◽  
Hiroshi Ogawa ◽  
QiKa Jia
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
Free Electron Lasers ◽  
Harmonic Order ◽  
Third Harmonic ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Third ◽  
Density Modulation ◽  
Higher Harmonic

It was demonstrated that harmonic order in free-electron laser (FEL) oscillations could be switched by adjusting the dispersive gap of the optical klystron ETLOK-III in the storage ring NIJI-IV. The effective gains for the fundamental and third-harmonic FEL oscillations were evaluated and it was confirmed that the FEL oscillated at the order of the harmonic with the higher effective gain. The ratio between the effective gain for the fundamental and that for the third harmonic was controlled by the dispersive gap. It was also demonstrated that a spectral measurement of the FEL-based Compton scattering X-ray beam was effective for directly observing the switching of the harmonic order. These results contribute to the development of higher-harmonic FEL oscillations suppressing the fundamental FEL oscillation in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions.

scholarly journals Erratum: Single Shot Coherence Properties of the Free-Electron Laser SACLA in the Hard X-ray Regime

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Lehmkühler ◽  
Christian Gutt ◽  
Birgit Fischer ◽  
Martin A. Schroer ◽  
Marcin Sikorski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
X Ray

scholarly journals Observation of K-Shell Soft X Ray Emission of Nitrogen Irradiated by XUV-Free Electron Laser FLASH at Intensities Greater than 1016 W/cm2

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 284-287
Author(s):  
E. Galtier ◽  
F.B. Rosmej ◽  
O. Renner ◽  
L. Juha ◽  
J. Chalupsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
X Ray

scholarly journals High Repetition Rate and Coherent Free-Electron Laser in the X-Rays Range Tailored for Linear Spectroscopy

Instruments ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vittoria Petrillo ◽  
Michele Opromolla ◽  
Alberto Bacci ◽  
Illya Drebot ◽  
Giacomo Ghiringhelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Electron ◽  
Repetition Rate ◽  
Free Electron Laser ◽  
Extreme Ultraviolet ◽  
High Harmonic ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Regenerative Amplifier ◽  
X Ray ◽  
High Repetition

Fine time-resolved analysis of matter—i.e., spectroscopy and photon scattering—in the linear response regime requires fs-scale pulsed, high repetition rate, fully coherent X-ray sources. A seeded Free Electron Laser (FEL) driven by a Linac based on Super Conducting cavities, generating 10 8 – 10 10 coherent photons at 2–5 keV with 0.2–1 MHz of repetition rate, can address this need. Three different seeding schemes, reaching the X-ray range, are described hereafter. The first two are multi-stage cascades upshifting the radiation frequency by a factor of 10–30 starting from a seed represented by a coherent flash of extreme ultraviolet light. This radiation can be provided either by the High Harmonic Generation of an optical laser or by an FEL Oscillator operating at 12–14 nm. The third scheme is a regenerative amplifier working with X-ray mirrors. The whole chain of the X-ray generation is here described by means of start-to-end simulations.

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