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MOP036 | Femtosecond Synchronization of 80-MHz Ti:Sapphire Photocathode Laser Oscillator with S-Band RF Oscillator | laser, timing, FEL, electron | 105 |
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Precision synchronization between lasers and RF sources in free-electron lasers (FELs) and ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) systems is becoming more important. There have been intense research and development toward femtosecond synchronization of lasers and RF sources in the last decade. Most of the previous approaches at large-scale FELs have used cw lasers or low-jitter mode-locked lasers at telecomm wavelength as the master oscillator and distributed the timing signals via stabilized fiber links. However, for smaller-scale FELs and UED, this approach may be a complex and high-cost method. In this work, we studied the possibility of using the commercial Ti:sapphire photocathode laser as the optical master oscillator as well. For its use in UED and FELs, we synchronized the 80-MHz Ti:sapphire photocathode laser oscillator to a 2.856-GHz RF source (used for RF-photogun) with 50-fs precision. Some interesting findings are following. First, intrinsic rms timing jitter of the used photocathode laser is 2.6 fs [10 kHz-10 MHz], which sets the fundamental limit in synchronization. Second, timing jitter in 100 Hz-1 kHz in photocathode laser is so severe (e.g., ~40 fs even feedback control is applied), so that it will require additional external-cavity control for achieving sub-10-fs precision. By addressing this issue, we are currently working toward 10-fs precision. | |||
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MOP043 | Influence of Environment Changes on Libera Sync 3 Long-term Stability | controls, timing, monitoring, operation | 126 |
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Libera Sync 3 can be used as a reference clock transfer system in the latest fourth generation light sources where the long-term stability is in the range of a few tens of femtoseconds of drift per day. The system has been developed in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and first units are already tested in SwissFEL machine. In this article we present the influence of temperature and humidity changes on the long-term phase stability of the system. | |||
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TUP022 | Measurement of Spatial Displacement of X-rays in Crystals for Self-Seeding Applications | experiment, FEL, electron, radiation | 405 |
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Free-electron laser (FEL) radiation arises from shot noise in the electron bunch, which is amplified along the undulator section and results in X-ray pulses consisting of many longitudinal modes [1]. The output bandwidth of FELs can be decreased by seeding the FEL process with longitudinally coherent radiation. In the hard x-ray region, there are no suitable external sources. This obstacle can be overcome by self-seeding. The X-ray beam is separated from the electrons using a magnetic chicane, and then monochromatized. The monochromatized X-rays serve as a narrowband seed, after recombination with the electron bunch, along the downstream undulators. This scheme generates longitudinally coherent FEL pulses.[2] have proposed monochromatization based on Forward Bragg Diffraction (FBD), which introduces a delay of the narrowband X-rays pulse of the order of femtoseconds that can be matched to the delay of the electron bunch due to the chicane. Unfortunately, the FBD process produces a small transverse displacement of the X-ray beam, which results in the loss of efficiency of the seeding process [3]. Preliminary results from an experiment performed at Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source seem to confirm the predicted transverse displacement, which is therefore to be taken into account in the design of self-seeding infrastructure for optimizing the FEL performance.
[1] J.S. Wark et al., J. Apply. Crystallogr. 32, 692 (1999) [2] G. Geloni et al., DESY report 10-053 (2010). [3] Y. Shvyd'ko et al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 15, 100702 (2012) |
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TUP026 | Measurment Uncertainties in Gas-Based Monitors for High Repetition Rate X-Ray FEL Operations | FEL, undulator, simulation, linac | 417 |
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Funding: Portions of this research were carried out at the LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. LCLS is an User Facility operated for the US DOE Office of Science by Stanford University. Thermodynamic simulations using a finite difference method were carried out to investigate the measurement uncertainties in gas-based X-ray FEL diagnostic monitors under high repetition rate operations such as planned for the future LCLS-II soft and hard X-ray FEL's. For monitors using relatively high gas pressures for obtaining sufficient signals, the absorbed thermal power becomes non-negligible as repetition rate increases while keeping pulse energy constant. The fluctuations in the absorbed power were shown to induce significant measurements uncertainties, especially in the single-pulse mode. The magnitude of this thermal effect depends nonlinearly on the absorbed power and can be minimized by using a more efficient detection scheme in which the gas pressure can be set sufficiently low |
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TUP045 | MTCA.4 Phase Detector for Femtosecond-Precision Laser Synchronization | laser, controls, timing, experiment | 474 |
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For time-resolved experiments at FELs such as the European XFEL an accurate synchronization of the machine is essential. The required femtosecond- level synchronization we plan to achieve with an optical synchronization system, in which an inherent part is the master laser oscillator (MLO) locked to the electrical reference. At DESY we develop a custom rear transition module in MTCA.4 standard, which will allow for different techniques of phase detection between the optical and the electrical signal, as well as locking to an optical reference using a cross-correlator. In this paper we present the current status of the development, including two basic solutions for the detection to an RF. One of the methods incorporates an external drift free detector based on the so-called MZI setup. The other one employs the currently used downconverter scheme with subsequent improvements. The module can serve for locking a variety of lasers with different repetition rates. | |||
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TUP050 | Extension of Existing Pulse Analysis Methods to High-Repetition Rate Operation: Studies of the "Time-Stretch Strategy" | electron, laser, FEL, storage-ring | 483 |
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Funding: ANR (2010-042301, DYNACO), LABEX CEMPI project (ANR-11-LABX-0007), ERC grant COXINEL (340015), GENCI TGCC/IDRIS (x2014057057,i2015057057). Many single-shot recording setups are based on the encoding of the information onto a laser pulse. This concerns in particular electro-optic sampling of bunch shapes, and VUV/X pulse monitors using transient reflectivity. The upgrade of these methods to high repetition rates presents challenging issues, that are due to the limited speed of the recording cameras. Recently [1], we demonstrated that multi-MHz repetition rates can be achieved using a relatively simple upgrade of existing setups, using the so-called "photonic time-stretch" technique. Here we present guidelines for the practical realization in the case of electro-optic sampling. We also present a performance analysis, and compare it to the spectral encoding case. The technique is potentially applicable to other cases where the information can be encoded on a chirped laser pulse, as, e.g., transient reflectivity diagnostics of XUV pulses. [1] Observing microscopic structures of a relativistic object using a time-stretch strategy, E. Roussel, C. Evain, M. Le Parquier, C. Szwaj, S. Bielawski, L. Manceron, J.-B. Brubach, M.-A. Tordeux, J.-P. Ricaud, L. Cassinari, M. Labat, M.-E Couprie, and P. Roy, Scientific Reports 5, 10330 (2015). |
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