Status of the Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser FLASH

The superconducting free-electron laser FLASH at DESY routinely produces up to several thousand photon pulses per second with wavelengths in the soft X-ray and XUV regime and with energies up to 0.5 mJ per pulse.In 2014 the assembly of a second undulator beamline, FLASH2, was finished.Recommissioning of the FLASH linac and the original FLASH1 beamline was finished already end of 2013 and the commissioning of FLASH2 started in February 2014.Only a few weeks have been reserved for dedicated set up of FLASH2, and most of its commissioning has been performed parasitically during the FLASH1 user run.The first beam was extracted through the septum to the FLASH2 beamline on March 4th, 2014, and the first lasing of FLASH2 at a wavelength of about 40 nm was achieved on August 20th, while FLASH1 was lasing simultaneously with 250 bunches at 13.5 nm.We summarize here the status of the FLASH2 commissioning and the FLASH1 operation during its 5th user period