Installation of the first two front ends for the SLS2.0 completed
At the Swiss Light Source SLS of the Paul Scherrer Institute, another important step has been taken towards the completion of the SLS 2.0 upgrade project.
A compact gas attenuator for the SwissFEL ATHOS beamline realized using additive manufacturing
Gas attenuators are important devices providing accurate variation of photon intensity for soft X-ray beamlines. In the SwissFEL ATHOS beamline front-end the space is very limited and an innovative approach has been taken to provide attenuation of three orders of magnitude up to an energy of 1200 eV. Additive manufacturing of a differential pumping system vacuum manifold allowed a triple pumping stage to be realized in a space of less than half a meter. Measurements have shown that the response of the device is as expected from theoretical calculations.
Première lumière à Furka: les expériences peuvent démarrer
La voie vers des expériences uniques au monde est libre.
First light in the SwissFEL Maloja endstation
The first endstation at the SwissFEL Athos soft X-ray branch is rapidly developing and on track for first experiments in 2021.
SwissFEL: Athos fait de grands progrès
La nouvelle ligne de faisceaux à rayons X au laser à électrons libres SwissFEL du PSI sera bientôt opérationnelle. En décembre, Athos a fourni pour la première fois de la lumière laser, même plus tôt que prévu, à la grande joie des chercheurs en charge de sa construction.
Towards X-ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy at SwissFEL
The high brilliance of new X-ray sources such as X-ray Free Electron Laser opens the way to non-linear spectroscopies. These techniques can probe ultrafast matter dynamics that would otherwise be inaccessible. One of these techniques, Transient Grating, involves the creation of a transient excitation grating by crossing X-ray beams on the sample. Scientists at PSI have realized a demonstration of such crossing by using an innovative approach well suited for the hard X-ray regime.
La première expérience conduite au SwissFEL a été un succès
Les méticuleuses années de planification et de construction ont porté leurs fruits: la première expérience conduite à la nouvelle grande installation de recherche de l’Institut Paul Scherrer PSI, le laser à rayons X à électrons libres SwissFEL, a été un succès. Ce faisant, deux objectifs ont été atteints: d’un côté l’obtention d’un nouveau résultat scientifique, de l’autre une optimisation de l’interaction entre les nombreux composants de cette installation extrêmement complexe.
High-Precision Vertical Linear Translation for Offset Mirrors
The horizontal and vertical offset mirrors are key optical elements for the SwissFEL ARAMIS Beamline. The offset mirrors for example, are used to deflect and steer the x-ray beam into one of the end stations. As the sample position is about 60m from the mirror, very high demands are put on the mirror positioning system in order to deflect the x-ray beam on to the sample with a micro-meter precision. Therefore precise positioning of the mirrors is required, with specifications to move a load of up to 200kg by steps as small as 0.3µm. Not just the positioning must be precise, but also the stability for short term vibrations and long term drifts must be superior.