STATUS OF FLUTE

FLUTE, a new linac-based test facility and THz source is currently being built at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in collaboration with DESY and PSI. It consists of an RF photo gun and a traveling wave linac accelerating electrons to beam energies of � 41MeV in the charge range from a few pC up to 3nC. The electron bunch will then be compressed in a magnetic chicane in the range of 1 300fs, dependingonthecharge, inordertogeneratecoherent THz radiation with high peak power. An overview of the simulation and hardware status is given in this contribution.