SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser

The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard X-ray branch. In the following sections we will summarize the various aspects of the proje...

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Main Authors: Christopher J. Milne, Thomas Schietinger, Masamitsu Aiba, Arturo Alarcon, Jürgen Alex, Alexander Anghel, Vladimir Arsov, Carl Beard, Paul Beaud, Simona Bettoni, Markus Bopp, Helge Brands, Manuel Brönnimann, Ingo Brunnenkant, Marco Calvi, Alessandro Citterio, Paolo Craievich, Marta Csatari Divall, Mark Dällenbach, Michael D’Amico, Andreas Dax, Yunpei Deng, Alexander Dietrich, Roberto Dinapoli, Edwin Divall, Sladana Dordevic, Simon Ebner, Christian Erny, Hansrudolf Fitze, Uwe Flechsig, Rolf Follath, Franziska Frei, Florian Gärtner, Romain Ganter, Terence Garvey, Zheqiao Geng, Ishkhan Gorgisyan, Christopher Gough, Andreas Hauff, Christoph P. Hauri, Nicole Hiller, Tadej Humar, Stephan Hunziker, Gerhard Ingold, Rasmus Ischebeck, Markus Janousch, Pavle Juranić, Mario Jurcevic, Maik Kaiser, Babak Kalantari, Roger Kalt, Boris Keil, Christoph Kittel, Gregor Knopp, Waldemar Koprek, Henrik T. Lemke, Thomas Lippuner, Daniel Llorente Sancho, Florian Löhl, Carlos Lopez-Cuenca, Fabian Märki, Fabio Marcellini, Goran Marinkovic, Isabelle Martiel, Ralf Menzel, Aldo Mozzanica, Karol Nass, Gian Luca Orlandi, Cigdem Ozkan Loch, Ezequiel Panepucci, Martin Paraliev, Bruce Patterson, Bill Pedrini, Marco Pedrozzi, Patrick Pollet, Claude Pradervand, Eduard Prat, Peter Radi, Jean-Yves Raguin, Sophie Redford, Jens Rehanek, Julien Réhault, Sven Reiche, Matthias Ringele, Jochen Rittmann, Leonid Rivkin, Albert Romann, Marie Ruat, Christian Ruder, Leonardo Sala, Lionel Schebacher, Thomas Schilcher, Volker Schlott, Thomas Schmidt, Bernd Schmitt, Xintian Shi, Markus Stadler, Lukas Stingelin, Werner Sturzenegger, Jakub Szlachetko, Dhanya Thattil, Daniel M. Treyer, Alexandre Trisorio, Wolfgang Tron, Seraphin Vetter, Carlo Vicario, Didier Voulot, Meitian Wang, Thierry Zamofing, Christof Zellweger, Riccardo Zennaro, Elke Zimoch, Rafael Abela, Luc Patthey, Hans-Heinrich Braun
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author Christopher J. Milne
Thomas Schietinger
Masamitsu Aiba
Arturo Alarcon
Jürgen Alex
Alexander Anghel
Vladimir Arsov
Carl Beard
Paul Beaud
Simona Bettoni
Markus Bopp
Helge Brands
Manuel Brönnimann
Ingo Brunnenkant
Marco Calvi
Alessandro Citterio
Paolo Craievich
Marta Csatari Divall
Mark Dällenbach
Michael D’Amico
Andreas Dax
Yunpei Deng
Alexander Dietrich
Roberto Dinapoli
Edwin Divall
Sladana Dordevic
Simon Ebner
Christian Erny
Hansrudolf Fitze
Uwe Flechsig
Rolf Follath
Franziska Frei
Florian Gärtner
Romain Ganter
Terence Garvey
Zheqiao Geng
Ishkhan Gorgisyan
Christopher Gough
Andreas Hauff
Christoph P. Hauri
Nicole Hiller
Tadej Humar
Stephan Hunziker
Gerhard Ingold
Rasmus Ischebeck
Markus Janousch
Pavle Juranić
Mario Jurcevic
Maik Kaiser
Babak Kalantari
Roger Kalt
Boris Keil
Christoph Kittel
Gregor Knopp
Waldemar Koprek
Henrik T. Lemke
Thomas Lippuner
Daniel Llorente Sancho
Florian Löhl
Carlos Lopez-Cuenca
Fabian Märki
Fabio Marcellini
Goran Marinkovic
Isabelle Martiel
Ralf Menzel
Aldo Mozzanica
Karol Nass
Gian Luca Orlandi
Cigdem Ozkan Loch
Ezequiel Panepucci
Martin Paraliev
Bruce Patterson
Bill Pedrini
Marco Pedrozzi
Patrick Pollet
Claude Pradervand
Eduard Prat
Peter Radi
Jean-Yves Raguin
Sophie Redford
Jens Rehanek
Julien Réhault
Sven Reiche
Matthias Ringele
Jochen Rittmann
Leonid Rivkin
Albert Romann
Marie Ruat
Christian Ruder
Leonardo Sala
Lionel Schebacher
Thomas Schilcher
Volker Schlott
Thomas Schmidt
Bernd Schmitt
Xintian Shi
Markus Stadler
Lukas Stingelin
Werner Sturzenegger
Jakub Szlachetko
Dhanya Thattil
Daniel M. Treyer
Alexandre Trisorio
Wolfgang Tron
Seraphin Vetter
Carlo Vicario
Didier Voulot
Meitian Wang
Thierry Zamofing
Christof Zellweger
Riccardo Zennaro
Elke Zimoch
Rafael Abela
Luc Patthey
Hans-Heinrich Braun
spellingShingle Christopher J. Milne
Thomas Schietinger
Masamitsu Aiba
Arturo Alarcon
Jürgen Alex
Alexander Anghel
Vladimir Arsov
Carl Beard
Paul Beaud
Simona Bettoni
Markus Bopp
Helge Brands
Manuel Brönnimann
Ingo Brunnenkant
Marco Calvi
Alessandro Citterio
Paolo Craievich
Marta Csatari Divall
Mark Dällenbach
Michael D’Amico
Andreas Dax
Yunpei Deng
Alexander Dietrich
Roberto Dinapoli
Edwin Divall
Sladana Dordevic
Simon Ebner
Christian Erny
Hansrudolf Fitze
Uwe Flechsig
Rolf Follath
Franziska Frei
Florian Gärtner
Romain Ganter
Terence Garvey
Zheqiao Geng
Ishkhan Gorgisyan
Christopher Gough
Andreas Hauff
Christoph P. Hauri
Nicole Hiller
Tadej Humar
Stephan Hunziker
Gerhard Ingold
Rasmus Ischebeck
Markus Janousch
Pavle Juranić
Mario Jurcevic
Maik Kaiser
Babak Kalantari
Roger Kalt
Boris Keil
Christoph Kittel
Gregor Knopp
Waldemar Koprek
Henrik T. Lemke
Thomas Lippuner
Daniel Llorente Sancho
Florian Löhl
Carlos Lopez-Cuenca
Fabian Märki
Fabio Marcellini
Goran Marinkovic
Isabelle Martiel
Ralf Menzel
Aldo Mozzanica
Karol Nass
Gian Luca Orlandi
Cigdem Ozkan Loch
Ezequiel Panepucci
Martin Paraliev
Bruce Patterson
Bill Pedrini
Marco Pedrozzi
Patrick Pollet
Claude Pradervand
Eduard Prat
Peter Radi
Jean-Yves Raguin
Sophie Redford
Jens Rehanek
Julien Réhault
Sven Reiche
Matthias Ringele
Jochen Rittmann
Leonid Rivkin
Albert Romann
Marie Ruat
Christian Ruder
Leonardo Sala
Lionel Schebacher
Thomas Schilcher
Volker Schlott
Thomas Schmidt
Bernd Schmitt
Xintian Shi
Markus Stadler
Lukas Stingelin
Werner Sturzenegger
Jakub Szlachetko
Dhanya Thattil
Daniel M. Treyer
Alexandre Trisorio
Wolfgang Tron
Seraphin Vetter
Carlo Vicario
Didier Voulot
Meitian Wang
Thierry Zamofing
Christof Zellweger
Riccardo Zennaro
Elke Zimoch
Rafael Abela
Luc Patthey
Hans-Heinrich Braun
SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
Applied Sciences
X-ray free electron laser
linac
X-rays
undulator
SwissFEL
X-ray optics
X-ray photon diagnostics
ultrafast X-ray science
X-ray detector
JUNGFRAU
serial femtosecond crystallography
author_facet Christopher J. Milne
Thomas Schietinger
Masamitsu Aiba
Arturo Alarcon
Jürgen Alex
Alexander Anghel
Vladimir Arsov
Carl Beard
Paul Beaud
Simona Bettoni
Markus Bopp
Helge Brands
Manuel Brönnimann
Ingo Brunnenkant
Marco Calvi
Alessandro Citterio
Paolo Craievich
Marta Csatari Divall
Mark Dällenbach
Michael D’Amico
Andreas Dax
Yunpei Deng
Alexander Dietrich
Roberto Dinapoli
Edwin Divall
Sladana Dordevic
Simon Ebner
Christian Erny
Hansrudolf Fitze
Uwe Flechsig
Rolf Follath
Franziska Frei
Florian Gärtner
Romain Ganter
Terence Garvey
Zheqiao Geng
Ishkhan Gorgisyan
Christopher Gough
Andreas Hauff
Christoph P. Hauri
Nicole Hiller
Tadej Humar
Stephan Hunziker
Gerhard Ingold
Rasmus Ischebeck
Markus Janousch
Pavle Juranić
Mario Jurcevic
Maik Kaiser
Babak Kalantari
Roger Kalt
Boris Keil
Christoph Kittel
Gregor Knopp
Waldemar Koprek
Henrik T. Lemke
Thomas Lippuner
Daniel Llorente Sancho
Florian Löhl
Carlos Lopez-Cuenca
Fabian Märki
Fabio Marcellini
Goran Marinkovic
Isabelle Martiel
Ralf Menzel
Aldo Mozzanica
Karol Nass
Gian Luca Orlandi
Cigdem Ozkan Loch
Ezequiel Panepucci
Martin Paraliev
Bruce Patterson
Bill Pedrini
Marco Pedrozzi
Patrick Pollet
Claude Pradervand
Eduard Prat
Peter Radi
Jean-Yves Raguin
Sophie Redford
Jens Rehanek
Julien Réhault
Sven Reiche
Matthias Ringele
Jochen Rittmann
Leonid Rivkin
Albert Romann
Marie Ruat
Christian Ruder
Leonardo Sala
Lionel Schebacher
Thomas Schilcher
Volker Schlott
Thomas Schmidt
Bernd Schmitt
Xintian Shi
Markus Stadler
Lukas Stingelin
Werner Sturzenegger
Jakub Szlachetko
Dhanya Thattil
Daniel M. Treyer
Alexandre Trisorio
Wolfgang Tron
Seraphin Vetter
Carlo Vicario
Didier Voulot
Meitian Wang
Thierry Zamofing
Christof Zellweger
Riccardo Zennaro
Elke Zimoch
Rafael Abela
Luc Patthey
Hans-Heinrich Braun
author_sort Christopher J. Milne
title SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
title_short SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
title_full SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
title_fullStr SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
title_full_unstemmed SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
title_sort swissfel: the swiss x-ray free electron laser
publisher MDPI AG
series Applied Sciences
issn 2076-3417
publishDate 2017-07-01
description The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard X-ray branch. In the following sections we will summarize the various aspects of the project, including the design of the soft and hard X-ray branches of the accelerator, the results of SwissFEL performance simulations, details of the photon beamlines and experimental stations, and our first commissioning results.
topic X-ray free electron laser
linac
X-rays
undulator
SwissFEL
X-ray optics
X-ray photon diagnostics
ultrafast X-ray science
X-ray detector
JUNGFRAU
serial femtosecond crystallography
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/7/720
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SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, SwitzerlandThe SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard X-ray branch. In the following sections we will summarize the various aspects of the project, including the design of the soft and hard X-ray branches of the accelerator, the results of SwissFEL performance simulations, details of the photon beamlines and experimental stations, and our first commissioning results.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/7/720X-ray free electron laserlinacX-raysundulatorSwissFELX-ray opticsX-ray photon diagnosticsultrafast X-ray scienceX-ray detectorJUNGFRAUserial femtosecond crystallography