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TUZA01 | Commissioning and Initial Operation of FERMI@Elettra | 918 |
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Funding: Work was supported in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under grants FIRB-RBAP045JF2 and FIRB-RBAP06AWK3. This article describes the design goals of FERMI@Elettra, reports on the goals achieved so far and shows how the facility development has been driven by the new research frontier of ultra-fast, extreme ultra-violet and soft X-ray science. The commissioning phases and first experience with user pilot experiments are presented and discussed. |
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TUZA02 | sFLASH - Present Status and Commissioning Results | 923 |
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The free-electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH) was previously being operated in the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mode, producing photons in the XUV wavelength range. Due to the start-up from noise the SASE-radiation consists of a number of uncorrelated modes, which results in a reduced coherence. One option to simultaneously improve both the coherence and the synchronisation between the FEL-pulse and an external laser is to operate FLASH as an amplifier of a seed produced using high harmonics generation (HHG). An experimental set-up - sFLASH, has been installed to test this concept for the wavelengths below 40 nm. The sFLASH installation took place during the planed FLASH shutdown in the winter of 2009/2010. The technical commissioning, which began in the spring of 2010, has been followed by seeded-FEL commissioning, FEL-characterisation and pilot experiments. In this contribution the present status and the sFLASH commissioning results will be discussed. | ||
Slides TUZA02 [4.125 MB] | ||