STATUS REPORT OF THE SHORT-PULSE FACILITY AT THE DELTA STORAGE RING*

At DELTA, a 1.5-GeV synchrotron light source operated by the TU Dortmund University, a short-pulse facility employing the CHG (Coherent Harmonic Generation) principle is in operation. Here, the interaction of an intense, ultrashort laser pulse and electrons in an undulator leads to microbunching of a small fraction of the electrons in the bunch. As a consequence, ultrashort, coherent synchrotron radiation pulses in the VUV regime are emitted at harmonics of the incident laser wavelength. In addition, coherent THz pulses on the sub-ps timescale are generated. In this paper, the latest improvements of the facility and recent measurements are presented, including investigation of the transverse coherence and detection of the CHG radiation using photoemission spectroscopy in a VUV beamline.