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s FLASH, acronym of Free Electron LASer in Hamburg, is a superconducting particle accelerator-based soft X-ray free-electron laser located at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg, Germany. It can generate very powerful, ultrashort pulses (~10 −14 s) of coherent radiation in the energy range from 10 eV (electronvolt) to 300 eV. It started operation for external users in the year 2005 and is used for surface, molecular and atomic physics experiments. Intended applications are also the imaging of single biological complex molecules with time resolution. FLASH originated from the TESLA Test Facility (TTF), which was built in 1997 to test the technology foreseen for the planned linear collider TESLA, a project that was replaced by the International Linear Collider (ILC). For this purpose, the TTF was enlarged from 100 m to 260 m. FLASH also served as a test facility for the technology for the European XFEL. The facility currently serves seven experimental stations. It is also used as a test facility for plasma wakefield acceleration at the FLASHForward experiment. Since 2020, it has been expanded to further optimise the properties of the radiation (FLASH2020+ project).

Flash, flashes, or FLASH may refer to: ==Arts, entertainment, and media== ===Fictional aliases=== The Flash, several DC Comics superheroes with super speed: Jay Garrick Barry Allen Wally West, the first Kid Flash and third adult Flash Bart Allen, the second Kid Flash who also became the adult hero for a time Flash (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe Flash, a robot in the video game Brave Saga 2 Flash, a character in the comedy film Daddy Day Care (2003) Flash, a character in the TV science fiction drama Real Humans Flash, a character in the 1989 American action comedy movie Speed Zone Flash, a character in the TV sitcom Step by Step Flash, a character in the film Zootopia (2016) Flash Gordon, the titular hero of science fiction comic strip Flash Sentry, in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Flash Thompson, a Marvel comic book character Flash, known as Furzz in the US, an anthropomorphic rabbit from Roary the Racing Car Flashy Flash, a hero on One Punch Man ===Films=== Flash (1997 film), Disney Channel Flash (2007 film), Malayalam The Flash (film), 2023 film based on DC comics ===Games=== Flash (pinball), a 1979 Williams pinball game Teen patti or Flash, a three-card poker-style game The Flash (video game), 1991, based on the superhero Flash, a non-standard poker hand ===Literature and visual arts=== ====Comics==== Flash Comics, a 1940s anthology comic book The Flash (DC Rebirth), a comic book in the DC Rebirth relaunch The Flash (comic book), an ongoing DC series ====Periodicals==== Flash Weekly Newspicture Magazine, a defunct American photography magazine Flash (magazine), a quarterly Australian photography magazine Flash (Auckland newspaper), New Zealand Flash (French newspaper), a defunct far-right newspaper ====Other literature==== Flash (Krentz novel), a 1998 romance novel Flash (Modesitt novel), a 2004 science fiction novel ====Other visual arts==== Flash (photography), a device that produces a burst of light to illuminate a scene Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art Flash, a lightning bolt symbol, for example in Flash and Circle ===Music=== ====Music groups==== Flash (band), a 1970s progressive rock group ====Albums and EPs==== Flash (Amoyamo album) (2013) Flash (EP), 2010, by Crystal Kay Flash (Jeff Beck album) Flash (Electric Food album) (1970) Flash (Flash album) (1972) Flash (Moving Sidewalks album) (1968) Flash (Towa Tei album) (2005) Flash, a 1996 album by Red Five ====Songs==== "Flashes" (song), 1931, by Bix Beiderbecke "Flash" (Queen song), 1980 "Flash" (Stéphanie song), 1986 "Flash" (B.B.E. song), 1997 "Flash" (Iggy Azalea song), 2012 "Flash" (Perfume song), 2016 "Flash" (X1 song), 2019 "Flash", a song by 2hollis from Star, 2025 "Flash", a song by Cigarettes After Sex from their self-titled album, 2017 "Flash", a song by Rocket Punch, 2022 === Television=== The Flash (1990 TV series), an American superhero series The Flash (2014 TV series), an American superhero series "Flash" (The Detectives), a 1995 episode ==Military== Flash priority (or FLASH), any of several military message precedence designations M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher Operation Flash, a May 1995 Croatian Army offensive in Western Slavonia Tactical recognition flash, a combat clothing arm patch indicating affiliation ==People== ===Artists and performers=== Flash Brown (born 1981¹), pornographic actor and basketball player Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), American hip hop musician and DJ Larry "Flash" Jenkins (1955–2019), American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter Flash Terry (1934–2004), American guitarist and singer ===Professional fighters and gamers=== Flash (wrestler) (born 1981), masked professional wrestler Adam Flash (born 1971), American professional wrestler Flash Flanagan (born 1974), American professional wrestler Scott Norton (born 1961), American professional wrestler Flash (active 1995), on the TV show American Gladiators Gabriel Elorde (1935–1985), Filipino professional boxer Lee Young-ho (born 1992), South Korean professional Starcraft player also known as "Flash" ===Athletes=== Flash Brown (born 1981), pornographic actor and basketball player Richard Flash (born 1976), English footballer Josh Gordon (born 1991), American football player Flash Hollett (1911–1999), Canadian ice hockey defenceman Cordarrelle Patterson (born 1991), American football player Gordon Shedden (born 1979), British racing driver Dwyane Wade (born 1982), American basketball player ===Other people=== George Flash (1909–1990), Israeli politician Sandy Flash (died 1778), American highwayman Mark Kennedy (policeman) (born 1969), known undercover as Flash or Mark Stone ==Places== Flash, Staffordshire, a village in England The Flash (lake), near Borras, Wales Flash (lake), a body of water that forms where the land below it has subsided ==Science and technology== ===Computing=== Adobe Flash (formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash), multimedia platform software Adobe Animate Adobe Flash Player Flash Video Flash memory, a kind of non-volatile computer memory Flash!, the bundled graphics package for the SAM Coupé home computer ===Other uses in science and technology=== Flash (manufacturing), excess material attached to a moulded product Flash (photography), instantaneous illumination for picture taking FLASH, a particle physics facility in Germany Flash lightning, a lightning burst within a cloud (Intracloud) FlAsH-EDT2 or FlAsH tag, a fluorescent label for proteins Hook flash, a telephony signal, often known as simply 'flash' Fast low angle shot magnetic resonance imaging (FLASH), an MRI pulse sequence ==Sports== Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching Delaware Blue Coats, originally the Utah Flash, an NBA Development League team Flash Stakes, a former Thoroughbred horse race Kent State Golden Flashes or just the Flashes, the athletics teams of Kent State University Las Vegas Flash, an inline hockey team in 1994 Monterrey Flash, a Mexican indoor soccer team formed in 2011 Rochester Flash, a former American Soccer League team San Diego Flash, a soccer team based in San Diego, California Western New York Flash, an American women's soccer franchise ==Vehicular sports== Fly Castelluccio Flash, an Italian paramotor design Tilbury Flash, an American racing monoplane built in the 1930s Flash Engineering, a Swedish motorsports team ==Transportation== M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher Flash Airlines, an Egyptian private charter airline Flash BRT, a bus system in Montgomery County, Maryland ==Other uses== Flash (cleaning product), the trading name of Mr. Clean in the UK and Ireland Flash, to expose a person's private parts to another person in exhibitionism ==See also== Flashing (disambiguation) Flesch (disambiguation)

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