First observation of SASE radiation using the compact wide-spectral-range XUV 
spectrometer at FLASH2.

Tanikawa, T.; Hage, A.; Kuhlmann, M.; Gonschior, J.; Grunewald, S.; Plonjes, E.; Düsterer, S.; Brenner, G.; Dziarzhytski, S.; Braune, M.; Brachmanski, M.; Yin, Z.; Siewert, F.; Dzelzainis, T.; Dromey, B.; Prandolini, M. J.; Tavella, F.; Zepf, M.; Faatz, B.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.088

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First observation of SASE radiation using the compact wide-spectral-range XUV spectrometer at FLASH2.

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Yin, Z.
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Tanikawa, T., Hage, A., Kuhlmann, M., Gonschior, J., Grunewald, S., Plonjes, E., et al. (2016). First observation of SASE radiation using the compact wide-spectral-range XUV spectrometer at FLASH2. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 830, 170-175. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.088.

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The Free-electron LASer in Hamburg (FLASH) has been extended with a new undulator line FLASH2 in 2014. A compact grazing-incident wide-spectral-range spectrometer based on spherical-variable-line spacing (SVLS) gratings in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) region was constructed to optimize and characterize the free-electron laser (FEL) performance at FLASH2. The spectrometer is equipped with three different concave SVLS gratings covering a spectral range from 1 to 62 nm to analyze the spectral characteristics of the XUV radiation. Wavelength calibration and evaluation of the spectral resolution were performed at the plane grating monochromator beamline PG2 at FLASH1 before the installation at FLASH2, and compared with analytical simulations. The first light using self-amplified spontaneous emission from FLASH2 was observed by the spectrometer during a simultaneous operation of both undulator lines-FLASH1 and FLASH2. In addition, the spectral resolution of the spectrometer was evaluated by comparing the measured spectrum from FLASH2 with FEL simulations.