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Feldhaus, J.

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MOPC028 Experimental Layout of 30 nm High Harmonic Laser Seeding at FLASH 127
 
  • H. Schlarb, S. Düsterer, J. Feldhaus, T. Laarmann
    DESY, Hamburg
  • A. Azima, J. Boedewadt, H. Delsim-Hashemi, M. Drescher, S. Khan, Th. Maltezopoulos, V. Miltchev, M. Mittenzwey, J. Rossbach, R. Tarkeshian, M. Wieland
    Uni HH, Hamburg
 
  Since 2004, the free-electron laser FLASH at DESY has operated in the Self-Amplified Stimulated Emission mode, delivering to users photon beams with wavelengths between 6.5 nm and 40 nm. In 2009, DESY plans to install a 3.9 GHz RF acceleration section for the production of electron bunches with high peak currents (~kA), but ten times larger pulse durations (~250 fs) compared to the present configuration. The relaxed timing requirements of the new configuration make it possible to externally seed FLASH with high harmonics of an optical laser (sFLASH). The aim of the project is to study the technical feasibility of seeding an FEL at 30 nm with a stability suited for user operation. sFLASH will use 10 m of gap-tunable undulators installed in front of the fixed gap SASE-undulator. A chicane behind the seeding undulators will allow to extract the output radiation for a careful characterisation and for first pump-probe experiments with a resolution in the 10 fs range by combining FEL and seed laser pulses.