AUTHOR=Liu Tao , Huang Nanshun , Yang Hanxiang , Qi Zheng , Zhang Kaiqing , Gao Zhangfeng , Chen Si , Feng Chao , Zhang Wei , Luo Hang , Fu Xiaoxi , Liu He , Faatz Bart , Deng Haixiao , Liu Bo , Wang Dong , Zhao Zhentang TITLE=Status and future of the soft X-ray free-electron laser beamline at the SHINE JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=11 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.1172368 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2023.1172368 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

The Shanghai High repetition rate XFEL and Extreme light facility (SHINE) is under construction and aims at generating X-rays between 0.4 and 25 keV with three FEL beamlines at repetition rates of up to 1 MHz. The soft X-ray FEL beamline, FEL-II, will be ready for commissioning in 2025. It is designed to cover the photon energy from 0.4 to 3 keV, in which the baselines of the FEL operation modes are self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE), self-seeding, echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG), and polarization control. Therefore, a high repetition-rate external seed laser, large period length modulator, soft X-ray monochromator, planar undulator, and elliptically polarized undulator have been adopted in the FEL-II beamline. Several potentials such as an ultra-short pulse mode and a multi-color mode are also foreseeable without significant equipment changes in the follow-up operation. A dual-period undulator design is suggested for the echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) commissioning, and it has great potential to break through the unreachable energy of the fully coherent X-ray in the future. The FEL-II beamline will deliver SASE radiation and fully coherent radiation in all the wavelengths of interest.