Author: Treusch, R.
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THPC081 Status of the Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY 3080
 
  • M. Vogt, B. Faatz, J. Feldhaus, K. Honkavaara, S. Schreiber, R. Treusch
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The free-electron laser facility FLASH at DESY, Germany has been upgraded in 2010. Now, FLASH delivers an electron beam energy up to 1.25 GeV. The longitudinal phase-space is linearized by 3.9 GHz superconducting cavities. The facility delivers to users ultra-short laser like radiation pulses in the range of less than 50 fs to 200 fs in the soft X-ray wavelenth range from 44 down to 4.1 nm. FLASH provides hundreds to thousands pulses per second to users with unprecedented peak brilliance. FLASH will be upgraded with a second undulator beam line and an additional experimental hall. Construction starts Autumn 2011. We summarize the operational status of the ongoing 3rd user period.