FLASHfrom accelerator test facility to the first single-pass soft x-ray free-electron laser

Jochen R Schneider (1)

1 CFEL - Center for Free-Electron Laser Science

The development from a test facility for the TESLA project of a Linear Collider with Integrated X-ray Free-Electron Laser to the world's first soft X-ray FEL user facility is described. In the wavelength range from 6.5 to 60 nm FLASH provides short pulses (~25 fsec) containing ~10 12 photons in laterally coherent beams with brilliance about 9 orders of magnitudes higher than achieved at the best synchrotron radiation storage ring facilities today. FLASH opened a new area in photon science where matter in non equilibrium states is studied with atomic resolution in space and time.

Keywords: Physical Sciences

Jochen R Schneider. FLASHfrom accelerator test facility to the first single-pass soft x-ray free-electron laser. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 2010, 43 (19), pp.194001. ⟨10.1088/0953-4075/43/19/194001⟩. ⟨hal-00569834⟩