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HowTo cite FLASH beamlines and instruments

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Collection of THE reference papers from FLASH

Last update: UNDER CONSTRUCTION, based on status 2016

FEL Machine:

  1. W. Ackermann et al.,
    Operation of a Free Electron Laser in the Wavelength Range from the Extreme Ultraviolet to the Water Window,
    Nature Photonics 1, 336-342 (2007);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.76

      Most recent status:

  1. Bart Faatz, Markus Braune, Olaf Hensler, Katja Honkavaara, Raimund Kammering, Marion Kuhlmann, Elke Ploenjes, Juliane Roensch-Schulenburg, Evgeny Schneidmiller, Siegfried Schreiber, Kai Tiedtke, Markus Tischer, Rolf Treusch, Mathias Vogt, Wilfried Wurth, Mikhail Yurkov and Johann Zamella,
    The FLASH Facility: Advanced Options for FLASH2 and Future Perspectives,
    Appl. Sci. 7, 1114 (2017);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app7111114
  2. J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, B. Faatz, K. Honkavaara, M. Kuhlmann, S. Schreiber, R. Treusch,
    Experience with Multi-Beam and Multi-Beamline FEL-Operation,
    8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC17), Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2017
    J.Phys.: Conf. Ser. 874, 012023 (2017);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/874/1/012023

  3. B. Faatz et al.,
    Simultaneous operation of two soft x-ray free-electron lasers driven by one linear accelerator,
    New J. Phys. 18, 062002 (2016);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/062002

User Facility/Beamline descriptions and Reviews:

  1. K. Tiedtke, A. Azima, N. von Bargen, L. Bittner, S. Bonfigt, S. Düsterer, B. Faatz, U. Frühling, M. Gensch, Ch. Gerth, N. Guerassimova, U. Hahn, T. Hans, M. Hesse,              K. Honkavaara, U. Jastrow, P. Juranic, S. Kapitzki, B. Keitel, T. Kracht, M. Kuhlmann,        W. B. Li, M. Martins, T. Núñez, E. Plönjes, H. Redlin, E. L. Saldin, E. A. Schneidmiller,       J. R. Schneider, S. Schreiber, N. Stojanovic, F. Tavella, S. Toleikis, R. Treusch, H. Weigelt, M. Wellhöfer, H. Wabnitz, M. V. Yurkov and J. Feldhaus,
    The soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY: beamlines, diagnostics, and end stations,
    New J. Phys. 11, 023029 (2009);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/2/023029
  2. Jochen R Schneider,
    FLASH - from accelerator test facility to the first single-pass soft x-ray free-electron laser,
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 43, 194001 (2010);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/43/19/194001
  3. J. Feldhaus,
    FLASH - the first soft x-ray free electron laser (FEL) user facility,
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 43, 194002 (2010);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/43/19/194002

PG monochromator beamline:

  1. M. Martins, M. Wellhöfer, J.T. Hoeft, W. Wurth, J. Feldhaus, and R. Follath,
    Monochromator beamline for FLASH,
    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 115108 (2006);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2364148
  2. N. Gerasimova, S. Dziarzhytski, J. Feldhaus,
    The monochromator beamline at FLASH: performance, capabilities and upgrade plans,
    Journal of Modern Optics 58, 1480-1485 (2011); 
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2011.588344

THz Beamline:

  1. M. Gensch, L. Bittner, A. Chesnov, H. Delsim-Hashemi, M. Drescher, B. Faatz, J. Feldhaus, U. Fruehling, G.A. Geloni, Ch. Gerth, O. Grimm, U. Hahn, M. Hesse, S. Kapitzki, V. Kocharyan, O. Kozlov, E. Matyushevsky, N. Morozov, D. Petrov, E. Ploenjes, M. Roehling,  J. Rossbach, E.L. Saldin, B. Schmidt, P. Schmueser, E.A. Schneidmiller,          E. Syresin, A. Willner and M.V. Yurkov,
    New infrared undulator beamline at FLASH,
    Infrared Phys. Technol. 51, 423-425 (2008);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2007.12.032
  2. Ekaterina Zapolnova, , Torsten Golz, Rui Pan, Karsten Klose, Siegfried Schreiber, and Nikola Stojanovic.
    THz pulse doubler at FLASH: double pulses for pump–probe experiments at X-ray FELs,
    J. Synchrotron adiation 25, no. 1 (2018).

CAMP chamber:

  1. Benjamin Erk, Jan P. Müller, Cédric Bomme, Rebecca Boll, Günter Brenner, Henry Chapman, Jonathan Correa, Stefan Düsterer, Siarhei Dziarzhytski, Stefan Eisebitt, Heinz Graafsma, Sören Grunewald, Lars Gumprecht, Robert Hartmann, Günter Hauser, Barbara Keitel, Clemens von Korff Schmising, Marion Kuhlmann, Bastian Manschwetus, Laurent Mercadier, Erland Müller, Christopher Passow, Elke Plönjes, Daniel Ramm, Dimitrios Rompotis, Artem Rudenko, Daniela Rupp, Mario Sauppe, Frank Siewert, Dieter Schlosser, Lothar Strüder, Angad Swiderski, Simone Techert, Kai Tiedtke, Thomas Tilp, Rolf Treusch, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Ullrich, Robert Moshammer, Thomas Möller and Daniel Rolles,
    CAMP@FLASH: an end-station for imaging, electron- and ion-spectroscopy, and pump–probe experiments at the FLASH free-electron laser,

    J. Synchrotron Rad. 25(5), 1529 - 1540 (2018)
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577518008585

  2. LCLS CAMP reference

    Lothar Strüder, Sascha Epp, DanielRolles, Robert Hartmann, Peter Holl, Gerhard Lutz, Heike Soltau, Rouven Eckart, Christian Reich, Klaus Heinzinger, Christian Thamm, Artem Rudenko, Faton Krasniqi, Kai-Uwe Kühnel, Christian Bauer, Claus-Dieter Schröter, Robert Moshammer, Simone Techert, Danilo Miessner, Matteo Porro, Olaf Hälker, Norbert Meidinger, Nils Kimmel, Robert Andritschke, Florian Schopper, Georg Weidenspointner, Alexander Ziegler, Daniel Pietschner, Sven Herrmann, Ullrich Pietsch, Albert Walenta, Wolfram Leitenberger, Christoph Bostedt, Thomas Möller, Daniela Rupp, Marcus Adolph, Heinz Graafsma, Helmut Hirsemann, Klaus Gärtner, Rainer Richter, Lutz Foucar, Robert L. Shoeman, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Ullrich,
    Large-format, high-speed, X-ray pnCCDs combined with electron and ion imaging spectrometers in a multipurpose chamber for experiments at 4th generation light sources,
    Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 614, 483–496 (2010);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.12.053

Reaction Microscope:

  1. Georg Schmid, Kirsten Schnorr, Sven Augustin, Severin Meister, Hannes Lindenblatt, Florian Trost, Yifan Liu, Markus Braune, Rolf Treusch, Claus Dieter Schröter, Thomas Pfeifer and Robert Moshammer,
    Reaction Microscope Endstation at FLASH2,
    J. Synchrotron Rad. 26 (2019);
    https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519002236


Split and Delay Units:

At beamline BL2:

  1. R. Mitzner, B. Siemer, S. Roling, M. Wöstmann, T. Noll, F. Siewert, A.A. Sorokin, M. Richter, K. Tiedtke, H. Zacharias,
    A new soft x-ray autocorrelator – direct evaluation of the temporal properties of FEL pulses at 24 nm,
    Proceedings SRI 2009, AIP Conference Proceedings 1234, pp. 19-22 (2010);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3463172
  2. M. Wöstmann, R. Mitzner, T. Noll, S. Roling, B. Siemer, F. Siewert, S. Eppenhoff, F. Wahlert and H. Zacharias,
    The XUV split-and-delay unit at beamline BL2 at FLASH,
    J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 46, Special Issue: Frontiers of FEL Science, 164005 (2013);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/46/16/164005

At beamline PG2:

  1. F. Sorgenfrei, W.F. Schlotter, T. Beeck, M. Nagasono, S. Gieschen, H. Meyer, A. Föhlisch, M. Beye, and W. Wurth,
    The extreme ultraviolet split and femtosecond delay unit at the plane grating monochromator beamline PG2 at FLASH,
    Rev. of Sci. Instr. 81, 043107 (2010);  
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3374166

At beamline BL1 /CAMP:

  1. Sauppe, M. ; Rompotis, D. ; Erk, B. ; Bari, S. ; Bischoff, T. ; Boll, R. ; Bomme, C. ; Bostedt, C. ; Dörner, S. ; Düsterer, S. ; Feigl, T. ; Flückiger, L. ; Gorkhover, T. ; Kolatzki, K. ; Langbehn, B. ; Monserud, N. ; Mueller, E. ; Müller, J. P. ; Passow, C. ; Ramm, D. ; Rolles, D. ; Schubert, K. ; Schwob, L. ; Senfftleben, B. ; Treusch, R. ; Ulmer, A. ; Weigelt, H. ; Zimbalski, J. ; Zimmermann, J. ; Moeller, T. ; Rupp, D.,
    XUV double-pulses with femtosecond to 650 ps separation from a multilayer-mirror-based split-and-delay unit at FLASH
    Journal of synchrotron radiation 25(5), 1517 - 1528 (2018)
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577518006094

Fast Switching Mirror (BL beamlines):


  1. R. Sternberger, M. Sachwitz, A. Donat, U. Gensch, R. Heller, LV. Vu, U. Hahn, H. Schulte-Schrepping, K.  Tiedtke,
    A fast switching mirror unit at FLASH,
    Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 635, S47-S51 (2011);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.11.002
  2. J. Good, N. Leuschner, J. Nagler, F. Perlick, M. Sachwitz  and L.V. Vu,
    A Fast Switching Mirror Unit at FLASH,
    J. Phys.: Conf. Series 425, 122008 (2013);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/425/12/122008

Photon diagnostics papers:


  1. a) Gas Monitor Detector (GMD):

 

  1. K. Tiedtke, J. Feldhaus, U. Hahn, U. Jastrow, T. Nunez, T. Tschentscher, S.V. Bobashev, A.A. Sorokin,  J.B. Hastings, S. Möller, L. Cibic, A. Gottwald, A. Hoehl, U. Kroth,              M. Krumrey, H. Schöppe, G. Ulm, M. Richter,                                                                          

Gas-detector for X-ray lasers,

  1. Appl. Phys. 103, 094511 (2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2913328


  1. b) VLS Online Spectrometer:

 

  1. G. Brenner, S.Kapitzki, M.Kuhlmann, E.Ploenjes, T.Noll, F.Siewert,  R.Treusch, K.Tiedtke, R. Reininger, M.D.Roper, M.A.Bowler, F.M.Quinn,  J.Feldhaus,                                                                         First results from the online variable line spacing grating spectrometer at FLASH,                         Nucl. Instr. and Meth A 635, S99–S103 (2011);                        http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.09.134

 

  1. c) Compact Spectrometer:

 

  1. F. Frassetto, S. Coraggia, S. Dziarzhytski, N. Gerasimova, L. Poletto,

Extreme-ultraviolet compact spectrometer for the characterization of the harmonics

content in the free-electron-laser radiation at FLASH,

  1. Synchrotron Rad. 19, 596-601 (2012);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0909049512022224


  1. Fabio Frassetto, Siarhei Dziarzhytski, Natalia Guerassimova and Luca Poletto,

             Compact spectrometer for on-line photon diagnostics at FLASH,

  1. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 425,122010 (2013);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/425/12/122010

 

 

 

 

  1. d) Online photoionization spectrometer (OPIS):

 

  1. Markus Braune, Günter Brenner, Siarhei Dziarzhytski, Pavle Juranić, Andrey Sorokin and Kai Tiedtke,
    A non-invasive online photoionization spectrometer for FLASH2,
    PhotonDiag2015,
    J. Synchrotron Rad. 23, 10-20 (2016);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577515022675


  1. Wellhöfer, J.T. Hoeft, M. Martins, W. Wurth, M. Braune, J. Viefhaus, M. Richter, K. Tiedtke,
    Photoelectron spectroscopy as non-invasive method to monitor SASE-FEL radiation,
    JINST 3, P02003 (2008);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/3/02/P02003

 

  1. e) Gotthard detector:

 

  1. Palutke, N.C. Gerken, K. Mertens, S. Klumpp, A. Mozzanica, B. Schmitt, C. Wunderer, H. Graafsma, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, W. Wurth and M. Martins,
    Spectrometer for shot-to-shot photon energy characterization in the multi-bunch mode of the free electron laser at Hamburg,
    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 113107(2015); http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/rsi/86/11/10.1063/1.4936293

 

  1. f) Pulse Length and Timing tools:

 

  1. Robin Engel, Stefan Düsterer, Günter Brenner and Ulrich Teubner,
    Quasi-real-time photon pulse duration measurement by analysis of FEL radiation spectra,
    PhotonDiag2015,
    J. Synchrotron Rad. 23, 118-122 (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577515022997

 

  1. Düsterer, M. Rehders, A. Al-Shemmary, C. Behrens, G. Brenner, O. Brovko, M. DellAngela, M. Drescher, B. Faatz, J. Feldhaus, U. Frühling, N. Gerasimova, N. Gerken, C. Gerth, T. Golz, A. Grebentsov, E. Hass, K. Honkavaara, V. Kocharian, M. Kurka, Th. Limberg, R. Mitzner, R. Moshammer, E. Plönjes, M. Richter, J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, A. Rudenko, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, A. Senftleben, E.A. Schneidmiller, B. Siemer, F. Sorgenfrei, A.A. Sorokin, N. Stojanovic, K. Tiedtke, R. Treusch, M. Vogt, M. Wieland, W. Wurth, S. Wesch, M. Yan, M.V. Yurkov, H. Zacharias, and S. Schreiber,
    Development of experimental techniques for the characterization of ultrashort photon
    pulses of extreme ultraviolet free-electron lasers    ,
    Phys. Rev. STAB 17, 120702 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.120702

 

  1. M. Harmand, C.D. Murphy, C.R.D. Brown, M. Cammarata, T. Döppner, S. Düsterer, D. Fritz, E. Förster, E. Galtier, J. Gaudin, S.H. Glenzer, S. Göde, G. Gregori, V. Hilbert, D. Hochhaus, T. Laarmann, H.J. Lee, H. Lemke, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, A. Moinard, P. Neumayer, A. Przystawik, H. Redlin, M. Schulz, S. Skruszewicz, F. Tavella, T. Tschentscher, T. White, U. Zastrau and S.Toleikis,

Plasma switch as a temporal overlap tool for pump-probe experiments at FEL facilities,

JINST 7, P08007 (2012);  http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/08/P08007


  1. Cornelius Gahl, Armin Azima, Martin Beye, Martin Deppe, Kristian Döbrich, Urs Hasslinger, Franz Hennies, Alexej Melnikov, Mitsuru Nagasono, Annette Pietzsch, Martin Wolf, Wilfried Wurth and Alexander Föhlisch,
    A femtosecond X-ray/optical cross-correlator,
    Nature Photonics 2, 165-169 (2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.298

 

  1. g) THz streak camera:

 

  1. Frühling, M. Wieland, M. Gensch, T. Gebert, B. Schütte, M. Krikunova, R. Kalms., F. Budzyn, O. Grimm, J. Rossbach, E. Plönjes and M. Drescher,

             Single-shot THz field driven X-ray streak-camera,

             Nature Photonics 3, 523-528 (2009);  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.160

 

  1. h) Wavefront Sensor and Wigner Distribution measurements:

 

  1. Barbara Keitel, Elke Plönjes, Svea Kreis, Marion Kuhlmann, Kai Tiedtke, Tobias Mey, Bernd Schäfer and Klaus Mann,

Hartmann wavefront sensors and their application at FLASH,

Proc. PhotonDiag2015,

  1. Synchrotron Rad. 23, 43-49 (2016);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577515020354


  1. K. Mann, B. Flöter, T. Mey, B. Schäfer, B. Keitel, E. Plönjes, K. Tiedtke,

             Hartmann wavefront sensor for EUV radiation,

             Proc. SPIE 8679, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Lithography IV, 867922 (April 1, 2013);  

             http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2011508

 

  1. Mey,
    Radiation characteristics of extreme UV and soft X-ray sources
    PhD Thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
    Göttingen Series in X-ray Physics; 15 (2015), Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen, ISBN13: 978-3-86395-211-2;
    http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?univerlag-isbn-978-3-86395-211-2

 

  1. Mey, B. Schäfer, K. Mann, B. Keitel, M. Kuhlmann, and E. Plönjes,
    Wigner distribution measurements of the spatial coherence properties of the free-electron laser FLASH
    Optics Express 22, 16571 (2014);

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.016571

 

Pump-Probe Laser system:


  1. H. Redlin, A. Al-Shemmary, A. Azima, N. Stojanovic, F. Tavella, I. Will, S. Düsterer,

The FLASH pump-probe laser system: Setup, characterization and optical beamlines.,

Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 635, 88–93 (2011);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.09.159

 

  1. S. Schulz, M. K. Czwalinna, M. Felber, P. Prędki, S. Schefer, H. Schlarb, U. Wegner,

             Femtosecond-precision synchronization of the pump-probe optical laser for user experiments  

             at FLASH,

             Proc. SPIE 8778, Advances in X-ray Free-Electron Lasers II: Instrumentation, 87780R

             (May 3, 2013);

             http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2021572

 

Synchronization and Electron Bunch Arrvial time Monitor (BAM):

 

  1. Schulz, I. Grguraš, C. Behrens, H. Bromberger, J.T. Costello, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Felber, M.C. Hoffmann, M. Ilchen, H.Y. Liu, T. Mazza, M. Meyer, S. Pfeiffer, P. Prędki, S. Schefer, C. Schmidt, U. Wegner, H. Schlarb & A.L. Cavalieri,

Femtosecond all-optical synchronization of an X-ray free-electron laser,

Nature Communications 6, 5938 (2015);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6938


  1. Löhl, V. Arsov, M. Felber, K. Hacker, W. Jalmuzna, B. Lorbeer, F. Ludwig, K.-H. Matthiesen, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, P. Schmüser, S. Schulz, J. Szewinski, A. Winter, and J. Zemella,

Electron Bunch Timing with Femtosecond Precision in a Superconducting Free-Electron Laser,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 144801 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.144801


 

Damage Tresholds of optical components,  start at TTF1:


  1. Krzywinski, R. Sobierajski, M. Jurek, R. Nietubyc, J.B. Pelka, L. Juha, M. Bittner, V. Létal, and V. Vorlíček, A. Andrejczuk, J. Feldhaus, E.L. Saldin, E.A. Schneidmiller, R. Treusch, and M.V. Yurkov,

Conductors, semiconductors, and insulators irradiated with shortwavelength free-electron laser,

  1. Appl. Phys. 101, 043107 (2007);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2434989



Study of fluorescent crystals for beam profile imaging,  start at TTF1:

 

  1. Kirm, A. Andrejczuk, J.Krzywinski, and R. Sobierajski,
    Influence of excitation density on luminescence decay in Y3Al5O12:Ce and BaF2 crystals excited by free electron laser radiation in VUV,
    phys. stat. sol. (c) 2, 649-652 (2005);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssc.200460255

 

 

Study of carbon coatings for FEL mirrors,  start at TTF1:

 

  1. Steeg, L. Juha, J. Feldhaus, S. Jacobi, R. Sobierajski, C.Michaelsen, A. Andrejczuk, and J. Krzywinski,
    Total reflection amorphous carbon mirrors for vacuum ultraviolet free electron lasers,
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 657-659 (2004);

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1645320