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Naylor, G.A.

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IT03 Beam Loss Monitors at the ESRF 3
 
  • B. Joly, U. Weinrich, G.A. Naylor
    ESRF, The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
  
  The European Synchrotron radiation facility is a third generation x-ray source providing x-rays on a continuous basis. As a facility available to external users, the monitoring of radiation caused by the loss of high-energy stored beam is of great concern. A network of beam loss monitors has been installed inside the storage ring tunnel so as to detect and localize the slow loss of electrons during a beam decay. This diagnostic tool allows optimization of beam parameters and physical aperture limits as well as giving useful information on the machine to allow the lifetime to be optimized and defects localized.  
CT03 500 fs Streak Camera for UV-Hard X-Rays in 1 kHz Accumulating Mode with Optical 'Jitter Free' Synchronisation 54
 
  • K. Scheidt, G.A. Naylor
    ESRF, The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
  
  The development at the ESRF of a jitter-free, laser triggered Streak Camera has now yielded time resolution results as short as 460 fs while operating in accumulating mode. The so-called jitter-free synchronisation between the laser light and the Streak Camera is performed through a GaAs photo-switch in a simple HV circuit that connects directly to the Streak tube’s deflection plates. The novelty of this technique permits to obtain excellent dynamic range measurements in a shot-to-shot accumulation of ultra fast (laser stimulated) events at up to 1kHz without degrading the time resolution. Important insight was obtained on the quality of this optical synchronisation and its dependence on the laser characteristics, the switch circuit, and the structure of the GaAs switch itself. This permitted to suppress the jitter causes and today the 500 fs limitation is imposed by the streak tube’s intrinsic time resolution. This work was done by measuring (with Au or Pd photo-cathodes) the 3rd harmonic (i.e. 267 nm) of a 100 fs Ti:Saph laser. Also important progress was made with the reliability of the photo-switch and problems of HV break-down and structural degradation have been completely resolved. Since the principal use of this system at the ESRF is in ultra-fast X-ray diffraction experiments the exchangeable photo-cathode structure of this tube covers the entire UV-to-X-rays spectrum. The QE of various photo-cathode materials was measured in the 8-30 keV range.