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| TUPB42 | A Compact Single Shot Electro-Optical Bunch Length Monitor for the SwissFEL | 263 |
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The knowledge and control of electron bunch lengths is one of the key diagnostics in XFEL accelerators to reach the desired peak current in the electron beam. A compact electro-optical monitor was designed and build for bunch length measurements at the Swiss FEL. It is based on a mode locked ytterbium fiber laser probing the field-induced birefringence in an electro-optically active crystal (GaP) with a chirped laser pulse. The setup allows the direct time resolved single-shot measurement of the Coulomb field (THz-radiation) of the electron beam -and therefore the bunch length- with an accuracy as good as 200fs. Simulations of the signals expected at the SwissFEL and the results of first test at the SLS linac will be presented. |
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| TUPD31 | Ytterbium Fiber Laser for Electro-Optical Pulse Length Measurements at the SwissFEL | 366 |
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Pulsed Yb fiber lasers emit at 1030 nm which provides a better phase matching in standard EO crystals (GaP, ZnTe) than Ti:Sa lasers (800nm). We present a mode locked ytterbium fiber laser which is phase locked to the RF. A subsequent fiber amplifier is used to boost the power and to broaden the spectrum due to nonlinear effects. The produced pulses have a spectral width of up to 100 nm and are therefore suitable for EO bunch length measurements, especially for spectral decoding. The laser delivers a chirped pulse of some ps, the fourier limited pulse duration of ~30 fs can be almost reached by an additional shaper setup with a spatial light modulator in the Fourier plane. |
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| TUPD31 | Ytterbium Fiber Laser for Electro-Optical Pulse Length Measurements at the SwissFEL | 366 |
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Pulsed Yb fiber lasers emit at 1030 nm which provides a better phase matching in standard EO crystals (GaP, ZnTe) than Ti:Sa lasers (800nm). We present a mode locked ytterbium fiber laser which is phase locked to the RF. A subsequent fiber amplifier is used to boost the power and to broaden the spectrum due to nonlinear effects. The produced pulses have a spectral width of up to 100 nm and are therefore suitable for EO bunch length measurements, especially for spectral decoding. The laser delivers a chirped pulse of some ps, the fourier limited pulse duration of ~30 fs can be almost reached by an additional shaper setup with a spatial light modulator in the Fourier plane. |