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TY - CONF AU - Vogt, M. AU - Honkavaara, K. AU - Kuhlmann, M. AU - Rönsch-Schulenburg, J. AU - Schreiber, S. AU - Treusch, R. ED - Koscielniak, Shane ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Thomson, Jana TI - Status of the Superconducting Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY J2 - Proc. of IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 29-May 4, 2018 C1 - Vancouver, BC, Canada T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 9 LA - english AB - FLASH, the free-electron laser (FEL) user facility at DESY, has delivered high brilliance VUV and soft x-ray FEL radiation for photon experiments since summer 2005. In 2014 and 2015 a second beamline, FLASH2, has been commissioned in parallel to user operation at FLASH1. FLASH's superconducting linac can produce bunch trains of up to 800 bunches within a 0.8 ms RF flat top at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. In standard operation during 2017 FLASH supplied up to 500 bunches in two bunch trains with independent fill patterns and compression schemes. Since mid 2017 initial commissioning of a third experimental beamline, accommodating the FLASHForward plasma wakefield acceleration experiment, has started. We report on the highlights of the FLASH operation in 2017/2018. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1481 EP - 1484 KW - FEL KW - laser KW - operation KW - undulator KW - electron DA - 2018/06 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-184-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-TUPMF090 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2018/papers/tupmf090.pdf ER -