Author: Vogt, M.
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MOPOW010 The Superconducting Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser User Facility FLASH 729
 
  • M. Vogt, J. Feldhaus, K. Honkavaara, J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, S. Schreiber, R. Treusch
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  FLASH, the superconducting free-electron laser at DESY delivers up to several thousand photon pulses per second with wavelengths ranging from 52 nm down to as low as 4.2 nm and with pulse energies of up to 500 uJ to photon users at the FLASH1 beamline. In 2014 and 2015 a second beamline, FLASH2, has been commissioned in parallel to user operation at FLASH1. FLASH produces bunch trains of up to 800 bunches in 0.8 ms with a train repetition rate of 10 Hz. Each train can be split in sub-trains for FLASH1 and FLASH2, such that both beamlines receive bursts of bunches with full 10 Hz. Operational highlights are the latest SASE energy record of 600 uJ at 15 nm in FLASH2, and the first simultaneous SASE lasing of three undulator systems: FLASH1 (13.7 nm), sFLASH (38 nm), and FLASH2 (20 nm). sFLASH is the seeding experiment in the FLASH1 beamline. Moreover we will report on recent technical and operational improvements. A major success is the improved reliability and stability of the whole facility with shorter SASE tuning times.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-MOPOW010  
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THPMB008 Compensation of Steerer Crosstalk between FLASH1 and FLASH2 3237
 
  • F. Christie, B. Schmidt, M. Vogt
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The free-electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH) is a user facility delivering soft X-ray radiation. Starting from 2014, a second beam line for user operation, FLASH2, has been commissioned. It uses the same accelerating modules as the initial FLASH beam line (FLASH1) and the beam is deflected into a separate beam line downstream the linac. In the region, where the FLASH2 beam is extracted, both beam lines are close, the angle in between is 6.5 degrees. It has been observed, that steering dipoles in the extraction area, have an influence on both beam lines. Thus steering the orbit in one beam line, perturbs the orbit in the other beam line. This perturbation can significantly degrade the SASE energy in the other beam line. We have found a solution to this problem based the combination of local orbit bumps. The crosstalk from one steerer is corrected using additional steerers in the other beam line. This concept has already been tested at FLASH and has proven to work sufficiently well.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-THPMB008  
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