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The VUV-FEL at DESY, Hamburg, will require novel techniques to characterize the longitudinal charge distribution of the electron bunches that drive the free-electron laser. Conventional methods are inadequate at the short bunch lengths that will be obtained. One technique under study uses coherent far-infrared radiation to reconstruct the bunch shape through Fourier analysis of the spectrum. In a first step, a beam line to guide both far-infrared (50-1000 um) and optical synchrotron radiation from one of the bunch compressor magnets of the linear accelerator to a diagnostic station outside of the controlled area is currently under construction. It will also allow a comparison between streak camera and far-infrared measurements for features on length scales above some 100 um (the streak camera resolution). Later, infrared techniques extending to shorter wavelengths, i.e. to shorter bunch lengths, will also be used further downstream the accelerator, employing synchrotron, transition and undulator radiation. The beam line design, measurement principle and first measurements will be presented.
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