Table 1. X-ray parameters and capabilities of the MEC instrument.

Instrument name	MEC
Mirrors, incidence angle	3 SiC on Si, 1.32mrad
Monochromaticity ()†	(SASE), (seeded)
Energy range (keV)	2.5 to 11.0 (fundamental)
Unfocused beam size (m)	1000 at 8keV
Focused beam size (m)	2.0 to 100.0
Focusing optics	Be lenses, 1D and 2D focusing
Flux (photonspulse1)	(fundamental‡)
Pulse length (fs)	5200
Repetition rate (Hz)	120, 60, 30, 10, 5, 1, on demand
Optical laser parameters	Ti:sapphire laser: 1J, 50fs, 5Hz, 800nm
	Glass laser: 2 25J, 2100ns, 527nm, 1shot every 7min
Standard detectors	CSPAD-140k, CSPAD-560k,
	Princeton MTE-2048 and MTE-1300
Standard diagnostics	VISAR, FDI, X-ray Thomson scattering spectrometers
	XUV spectrometer, phase-contrast imaging diagnostic

^†Typical single-shot value.

^‡Excluding beamline and instrument transmission.