• H. Dewa, T. Asaka, H. Hanaki, T. Kobayashi, A. Mizuno, S. Suzuki, T. Taniuchi, H. Tomizawa, K. Yanagida
  JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken

The synchronous technologies of RF signal and laser pulse is important for photo-cathode RF gun system, because it determines the beam stability in phase and energy. For time jitter as small as 300 fs between RF signal and laser pulse, laser driven RF generation has been developed for our synchronization system since 2002. In the system, RF signal is directly generated from the laser pulse of 89.25 MHz by filtering the output of the photo detector with a band pass filter of 2856 MHz. The remaining problem was that the amplitude of the RF signal linearly depended on the laser pulse amplitude. For this reason, there was some amplitude jitter in the generated RF signal, which might also cause time jitter. To reduce the amplitude jitter, we developed a new laser driven RF generation system with amplitude stabilization realized by saturation amplifiers. The RMS deviation of the RF amplitude could be decreased to 0.173 % from 1.18 %. The RMS time jitter measured with a sampling oscilloscope was so small that it could not be correctly measured. The whole triggering and RF system of Spring-8 RF-gun is also presented.