TY - CPAPER AU - Prat, E. AU - Reiche, S. TI - Time Locking Options for the Soft X-Ray Beamline of SwissFEL J2 - Proc. of FEL2015 AB - SwissFEL is an FEL facility presently under construction at the Paul Scherrer institute that will serve two beamlines: Aramis, a hard X-ray beamline which is in construction phase and will provide FEL radiation in 2017 with a wavelength between 0.1 and 0.7 nm; and Athos, a soft X-ray beamline which is in design phase and it is expected to offer FEL light in 2021 for radiation wavelengths between 0.7 and 7 nm. A passive synchronization of the FEL signal to a laser source is fundamental for key experiments at Athos, such as the time-resolved resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments. In this paper we explore different options to achieve this time synchronization by means of energy modulating the electron beam with an external laser. PB - JACoW CY - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 388 EP - 392 KW - laser KW - FEL KW - electron KW - undulator KW - radiation DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-134-2 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-FEL2015-TUP019 UR - http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/FEL2015/papers/tup019.pdf ER -