Author: Bousonville, M.
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MOPO037 Concept of Femtosecond Timing and Synchronization Scheme at ELBE 565
 
  • M. Kuntzsch, A. Büchner, M. Gensch, A. Jochmann, T. Kirschke, U. Lehnert, F. Röser
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • M.K. Bock, M. Bousonville, M. Felber, T. Lamb, H. Schlarb, S. Schulz
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The Radiation Source ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is undergoing an extension to offer capacity for various applications. The extension includes the setup of a THz-beamline with a dedicated laboratory and a beamline for electron-beam - high-power laser interaction. The current synchronization scheme offers stability on the picoseconds level. For pump-probe experiments using optical lasers, the desired synchronization between the pump and the probe pulse should be on the femtosecond scale. In the future there will be an optical synchronization system with a pulsed fiber laser as an optical reference. The laser pulses will be distributed over stabilized fiber links to the remote stations. It is planned to install EOM-based beam arrival time monitors (BAMs) in order to monitor the bunch jitter and to establish a beam-based feedback to reduce the jitter. Besides that, the timing system has to be revised to generate triggers for experiments with low repetition rate, two electron guns (thermionic DC, superconducting RF) and several lasers. The Poster will show the possible layout of the future Timing and Synchronization System at ELBE.  
 
TUPC076 Realization of a High Bandwidth Bunch Arrival-time Monitor with Cone-shaped Pickup Electrodes for FLASH and XFEL 1177
 
  • A. Angelovski, M. Hansli, R. Jakoby, A. Kuhl, A. Penirschke, S. Schnepp
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • M. Bousonville, H. Schlarb
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • T. Weiland
    TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Funding: Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05K10RDA
In the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) an electro-optical system is used as a Bunch Arrival time Monitor (BAM). The time-of-arrival resolution is proportional to the steepness of the beam pick-up signal at the first zero-crossing*. Future experiments will be conducted using significantly lower bunch charges resulting in a reduced signal steepness. This requires BAM pickup electrodes with increased bandwidth as introduced in **. This paper presents the implementation and measurement results of a high bandwidth cone-shaped pickup capable of operating in the frequency range up to 40 GHz. The slope steepness at the zero crossing is investigated for a simplified equivalent circuit model. RF-measurements have been performed using a non-hermetic prototype of the BAM pickups for assessing the influence of manufacturing tolerances on the sensor performance. The measurements are compared to simulation results obtained by CST PARTICLE STUDIO®.
* F. Loehl et al., Proc. of DIPAC2007, WEPB15, p. 262 (2007).
** A. Angelovski et al., "Pickup design for a high resolution Bunch Arrival time Monitor for FLASH and XFEL", DIPAC2011.
 
 
TUPC079 Sensitivity and Tolerance Analysis of a New Bunch Arrival-time Monitor Pickup Design for FLASH and XFEL 1186
 
  • A. Kuhl, A. Angelovski, R. Jakoby, A. Penirschke, S. Schnepp
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • M. Bousonville, H. Schlarb
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • T. Weiland
    TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Funding: Supported by the Graduate School of Computational Engineering at TU Darmstadt and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05K10RDA "Weiterentwickung eines Ankunftszeitmonitors"
The Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) is equipped with Bunch Arrival Time Monitors (BAM)*, which provide for a time resolution of less than 10 fs for bunch charges higher than 0.2 nC. Future experiments, however, will aim at generating FEL light pulses from a broad range of bunch charges down to 10 pC. In these circumstances the requirements on the time resolution will no longer be fulfilled, which demands for a larger bandwidth of the pickup system. A new cone-shaped pickup, which has a bandwidth greater than 40 GHz has been proposed**. At high frequencies, small manufacturing tolerances might have great influence on the pickup signal. A sensitivity analysis of several manufacturing tolerances in the pickup design regarding their influence on the output signal was carried out (by means of CST PARTICLE STUDIO®). These results are utilized for setting limits to the manufacturing tolerances.
* M.K. Bock et al., IPAC2010, WEOCMH02, Kyoto, Japan, 2010.
** A. Kuhl et al., "Design eines hochauflösenden Ankunftszeitmonitor für FLASH", DPG Frühjahrstagung 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.