IBIC2022 - List of Authors (Cristiano, A.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEP10	Detection of a DC Electric Field Using Electro-Optical Crystals	403
	A. Cristiano, M. Krupa CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland R. Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
	Standard beam position monitors (BPM) are intrinsically insensitive to beams with no temporal structure, so-called DC beams, which many CERN experiments rely on. We therefore propose a novel detection technique in which the usual BPM electrodes are replaced with electro-optic (EO) crystals. When exposed to an electric field, such crystals change their optical properties. This can be exploited to encode the electric field magnitude onto the polarisation state of a laser beam crossing the crystal. An additional EO crystal, placed outside the vacuum chamber, can be used to control the system’s working point and to introduce a sinusoidal modulation, allowing DC measurements to be performed in the frequency domain. This contribution presents the working principle of this measurement technique, its known limitations, and possible solutions to further increase the system’s performance. Analytical results and simulations for a double-crystal optical chain are benchmarked against the experimental data taken on a laboratory test bench.
	Poster WEP10 [0.940 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-WEP10
About •	Received ※ 07 September 2022 — Revised ※ 10 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 03 December 2022
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Detection of a DC Electric Field Using Electro-Optical Crystals

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A. Cristiano, M. Krupa
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
R. Hill
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Standard beam position monitors (BPM) are intrinsically insensitive to beams with no temporal structure, so-called DC beams, which many CERN experiments rely on. We therefore propose a novel detection technique in which the usual BPM electrodes are replaced with electro-optic (EO) crystals. When exposed to an electric field, such crystals change their optical properties. This can be exploited to encode the electric field magnitude onto the polarisation state of a laser beam crossing the crystal. An additional EO crystal, placed outside the vacuum chamber, can be used to control the system’s working point and to introduce a sinusoidal modulation, allowing DC measurements to be performed in the frequency domain. This contribution presents the working principle of this measurement technique, its known limitations, and possible solutions to further increase the system’s performance. Analytical results and simulations for a double-crystal optical chain are benchmarked against the experimental data taken on a laboratory test bench.

Poster WEP10 [0.940 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2022-WEP10

About •

Received ※ 07 September 2022 — Revised ※ 10 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 03 December 2022

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)