A beamline designed to reduce the spectral bandwidth of the DESY XUV FEL is
described. The beamline is intended to cover the wavelength range from 6.4
to 50 nm. with three variable line spacing gratings. A plane mirror in fro
nt of the grating is used to maintain constant magnification in the dispers
ion direction. The electric field generated by the first undulator at three
wavelengths, 6.4, 13, and 25 nm, is propagated through the beamline. The r
esults show that the beamline has the resolution and imaging properties req
uired for seeding the second undulator at these wavelengths. (C) 2001 Elsev
ier Science B.V. All rights reserved.