PROGRESS OF THE COMMISSIONING OF THE TEST FEL AT MAX-lab

In a collaboration between MAX-lab and BESSY a test facility for Harmonic Generation Free Electron Laser is being constructed at MAX-lab. The setup uses the existing MAX-lab injector together with a Ti:Sa 263 nm laser system, used for both the gun and seeding, and an optical klystron consisting of a modulator, a chicane and a radiator. The different parts of the system have been installed and commissioning started during the fall of 2007. In this paper the progress of the commissioning of the Test FEL and our initial results are presented.