PCaPAC2018 - List of Keywords (fibre-optics)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
THP12	Upgrading the Synchronisation and Trigger Systems on the Vulcan High-Power Nd:glass Laser	timing, laser, experiment, operation	187
	D.A. Pepler, I. O. Musgrave, P.B.M. Oliveira STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	The Vulcan Neodymium-Glass High-Power Laser Facility at the Central Laser Facility in the UK has been operational for over 40 years providing a world-leading and high-profile service to International researchers in the field of Plasma Physics. Over that time the Facility has had many modifications and enhancements to the buildings, the laser hardware and to the computerised control, synchronisation and timing systems. As the laser systems have developed and the user experiments have continued to become much more complex and demanding, many new operational conditions have been required. The use of four independent laser oscillators with different properties - including temporal, spectral and operating frequencies - have meant that the optical and electrical multiplexing and the timing and synchronisation systems have all had to be adapted and extended to cope with these additional needs. However, these changes have resulted in the build-up of the overall system jitter to ± 250 ps between long (ns) and short (ps) optical pulses and this is a limiting factor for time-critical experiments. This paper will present some of the key changes and improvements that have recently been made.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-THP12
About •	paper received ※ 27 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018 issue date ※ 21 January 2019
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THP12

Upgrading the Synchronisation and Trigger Systems on the Vulcan High-Power Nd:glass Laser

timing, laser, experiment, operation

187

D.A. Pepler, I. O. Musgrave, P.B.M. Oliveira
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

The Vulcan Neodymium-Glass High-Power Laser Facility at the Central Laser Facility in the UK has been operational for over 40 years providing a world-leading and high-profile service to International researchers in the field of Plasma Physics. Over that time the Facility has had many modifications and enhancements to the buildings, the laser hardware and to the computerised control, synchronisation and timing systems. As the laser systems have developed and the user experiments have continued to become much more complex and demanding, many new operational conditions have been required. The use of four independent laser oscillators with different properties - including temporal, spectral and operating frequencies - have meant that the optical and electrical multiplexing and the timing and synchronisation systems have all had to be adapted and extended to cope with these additional needs. However, these changes have resulted in the build-up of the overall system jitter to ± 250 ps between long (ns) and short (ps) optical pulses and this is a limiting factor for time-critical experiments. This paper will present some of the key changes and improvements that have recently been made.

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-THP12

About •

paper received ※ 27 September 2018 paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018 issue date ※ 21 January 2019

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