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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

FLASH FEL Machine:

  1. Ackermann et al. (2007)

    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

  2. Most recent status (incl. FLASH2):

    Honkavaara, B. Faatz, J. Feldhaus, S. Schreiber, R.Treusch, M.Vogt,
    Status of the Soft X-Ray FEL User Facility FLASH,
    37th International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL 2015),
    Daejeon, Korea, 2015,
    Proc. FEL 2015 (published through www.jacow.org);


User Facility/Beamline descriptions and Reviews:

Reviews:

  1. Tiedtke et al., (2009)

    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. Schneider (2010)

    Jochen R Schneider,
    FLASH - from accelerator test facility to the first single-pass soft x-ray free-electron laser,
    Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 43, 194001 (2010);
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/43/19/194001

  3. Feldhaus (2010)

    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. Martins et al., (2006)

    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. Gerasimova et al., (2011)

    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. Gensch et al., (2008)

    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

CAMP chamber:

  1. Strüder et al., (2010)

    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


Split and Delay Units:


  1. a) at beamline BL2:

 

  1. 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


  1. 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

 

 

  1. b) at beamline PG2:

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. c) at beamline BL1 /CAMP

 

     DESC-Paper (in preparation)

 

 

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


  1. 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