BL Beamlines (FLASH1)

The experimental floor has a size of 20 m x 30 m. Beamline BL1  has Kirkpatrick-Beaz (KB) focusing optics and the permanently installed multi-purpose chamber CAMP.  The former beamline BL2 featured a ~20 μm (FWHM) focal spot produced by an ellipsoidal mirror or an unfocused beam and incorporated a spilt-and-delay unit for XUV-XUV pump-probe experiments. In the unfocused setup nickel coatings allowed user experiments down to ~4.2 nm in the FEL fundamental. Beamline BL3 features a ~20 μm (FWHM) focal spot produced by an ellipsoidal mirror or an unfocused beam and allows a combination of XUV pulses with THz pulses from the THz beamline for pump-probe experiments. All beamlines can be connected with the optical pump-probe laser.

  • more detailed information on the CAMP end-station
  • Non-monochromatic FEL photons
  • Nickel-coated Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) focusing optics providing an FEL focal spot of ~7μm x 8μm (FWHM, hor/ver) over the full wavelength range of FLASH1
  • Modular layout allowing combinations of large-area, single-photon counting pnCCD photon-detectors with VMI- and COLTRIMS-type electron- and ion-spectrometers, and ports for various user provided gas jets, particle injectors and fixed target holders
  • Multilayer based split-and-delay unit for XUV pump -XUV probe experiments (-30ps to +650ps, @13.57nm)
  • Photon diagnostics and beam manipulation tools: GMD intensity monitors, beam position monitors, in-line varied-line spacing (VLS) wavelength spectrometer, sets of filters and apertures, gas absorber, fast shutter
  • After the shutdown in 2024-2025, BL1 will initially not be operable with an optical pump-probe laser. A high-power optical pump-probe laser for FLASH1 beamlines will be built after accomplishing the seeded FEL and its delivery.


CONTACT BL1:

Erk
Benjamin Erk
E-Mail: Benjamin Erk
Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 (9)6237
Location: 49 / 112

BL2 has been disassembled in autumn 2020 and is no longer available !
 

BL3 - 3m x 4m footprint for user-provided endstation, THz-XUV Pump -probe available

  • non-monochromatic FEL photons, spectral range >4.5 nm (carbon coated optics)
  • focused to ~20 μm or unfocussed beam size ~5-10 mm (FWHM, depending on wavelength)
  • optional pump-probe experiments using the FLASH1 optical pump-probe laser systems
  • photon diagnostics and beam manipulation tools: GMD intensity monitors, beam position monitors, in-line varied-line spacing (VLS) wavelength spectrometer, OPIS wavelength spectrometer, sets of filters and apertures, gas absorber, fast shutter
  • optional pump-probe experiments usingTHz radiation .


CONTACT BL3:

Pan
Rui Pan
E-Mail: Rui Pan
Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 (9)4526
Location: 49 / 115
Toleikis
Sven Toleikis
E-Mail: Sven Toleikis
Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 (9)3827
Location: 49 / 105

References:
K. Tiedtke et al., The soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY: beamlines, diagnostics, and end stations, New J. Phys. 11, 023029 (2009). Article

BL 1 / CAMP
non-monochromatic direct SASE beam

BL 2
no longer available!
non-monochromatic direct SASE beam

BL 3
non-monochromatic direct SASE beam

Focus size FWHM (µm) (theor.)

~ 5x7

~20 / unfocused (~7 mm)

~20 / unfocused (~7 mm)

Focal length (m)

0.81 (hor), 0.55 (ver)

2 /NA

2 /NA

Focusing mirror

KB System

ellipsoidal/none

ellipsoidal/none

Beam height above floor (mm)

1600 ± 20

1600 ± 20

1600 ± 20

Distance of last flange of beamline (CF 40) to focus (mm)

NA

527.5/NA

527.5/NA

Distance focus- undulator (m)

76

73

72.2

No. of mirrors to exp (C coating), reflection angle

6 (2°,2°,2°,2°,3°,3°) focused
also Ni coating available

3 (2°, 2°, 3°) focused
2 (2°, 2°) unfocused also Ni coating available

5 (2°, 2°, 3°, 3°, 3°) focused
4 (2°, 2°, 3°, 3°) unfocused

Option to only use Ni mirrors

yes

yes (unfocused)
no (focused)

no (unfocused)
no (focused)

BL transmission (% at 13.5 nm, C coating)

48±5

64±4

59±6

Area for Experiment (m*m)

3*4
(consult BL1 contact)

3*4

3.5*4

Optical laser for pump-probe

no

no

no

Optical laser height (mm)

1500

1500

1500

THz for pump-probe

no

no

yes

Split-and delay unit

yes

yes

no

Gas attenuator

yes

yes

yes

Transmission filters

Al, Si, Zr, Nb

Al, Si, Zr, Nb

Al, Si, Zr, Nb

Fast shutter

yes

yes

yes