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| MOPC032 | Progress of the Commissioning of the Test FEL at MAX-lab | 139 |
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| In a collaboration between MAX-lab and BESSY a seeded Harmonic Generation Free Electron Laser is being constructed at MAX-lab. The setup uses the existing MAX-lab facility together with a Ti:Sa 266 nm lasersytem used for both the gun and seeding and an optical klystron consisting of a modulator, a chicane and a radiator. The different parts of the system has been installed and commissioning with electrons of the full setup started during the fall of 2007. In this paper the progress of the commissioning of the Test FEL and our initial results are presented. | ||
| MOPC046 | Femtoslicing at BESSY - Detecting More Photons | 172 |
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The BESSY femtoslicing facility is now well established* and has proven its succesful operation for femtosecond laser-pump and x-ray-probe experiments**. However, many interesting physical phenomena cannot be addressed with the presently available comparably low number of photons detected at the sample. The most direct way to increase the photon flux is to increase the laser repetition rate. In order to preserve the excellent fs-signal to ps-background ratio special storage ring fill patterns and corresponding laser synchronisation schemes have been studied. We present calculations showing the influence of a dedicated new radiator promising better flux and polarisation properties. Recent results from a new beamline based on high transmission reflection zone plates will be presented. A new avalanche photo diode-array-based detection system has been successfully tested. This allows a parallel detection in the dispersion plane behind the monochomator. The status of these improvements will be presented.
*S. Khan et al. Phys. Rev. Lett, (97), 074801 (2006). |
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| WEPC032 | Absolute Measurement of the MLS Storage Ring Parameters | 2055 |
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| The Metrology Light Source (MLS), the new electron storage ring of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) located next to BESSY II in Berlin - Adlershof is dedicated to metrology and technology development in the UV and EUV spectral range as well as in the IR and THz region. The MLS can be operated at various electron beam energies up to approx. 600 MeV and at electron beam currents varying from 1 pA (one stored electron) up to 200 mA and is optimized for the generation of coherent synchrotron radiation. Of special interest for PTB is the operation of the MLS as a primary radiation source standard from the visible up to the X-ray region. Therefore the MLS is equipped with all the instrumentation necessary to measure the storage ring parameters needed for the calculation of the spectral photon flux according to the Schwinger theory with low uncertainty. The instrumentation and measurement results for the determination of the storage ring parameters are presented. |