FLASH News Archive 2010

17 June 2010

Record wavelength at FLASH – First lasing below 4.5 nanometres (Jun. 2010)

For the first time, FLASH produced laser light with a wavelength of 4.45 nanometres; thus, DESY’s free-electron laser for soft X-ray light considerably beat its previous record of 6.5 nanometres. At the same time, the peak intensity of single light pulses nearly doubled, with 0.3 millijoule. Prior to this, there was a five-month machine upgrade, above all with a significant improvement of the superconducting ...