A Dedicated THz Beamline At BESSY

A special beamline dedicated to the Far Infrared (THz) region was successfully commissioned at BESSY for the spectral range between 50 GHz and 4.5 THz. The beamline accepts synchrotron radiation from a bend magnet source close to the interaction region of a femtosecond laser with the electron bunch. Either edge radiation as well as the regular bend magnet fan can be accepted. The beamline was tailored for diagnostics and experiments employing coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) from regular and compressed bunches as well as from a laser‐induced fs density modulation on the electron bunch. Besides a technical description of the beamlinethe the sources are compared using Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTIR).