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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2016-TUPG53
Title Bunch Arrival-Time Monitoring for Laser Particle Accelerators and Thomson Scattering X-Ray Sources
Authors
  • J.M. Kraemer, M. Kuntzschpresenter, U. Lehnert, P. Michel, U. Schramm
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • J.P. Couperus, A. Irman, A. Koehler, O. Zarini
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of Radiation Physics, Dresden, Germany
Abstract The ELBE center of high power radiation sources at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf combines a superconducting CW linear accelerator with Terawatt- and Petawatt-level laser sources. Key experiments rely on precise timing and synchronization between the different radiation pulses. An online single shot monitoring system has been set up in order to measure the timing between the high-power Ti:Sa laser DRACO and electron bunches generated by the conventional SRF accelerator. This turnkey timing system is suitable for timing control of Thomson scattering X-ray sources and external injection of electron bunches into a laser wakefield accelerator. It uses a broadband RF pickup to acquire a probe of the particle bunch's electric field and modulates a fraction of the high power laser pulse in a fast electro-optical modulator. The amplitude modulation gives a direct measure for the timing between both beams. Using this setup a resolution of <200 fs RMS has been demonstrated. The contribution will show the prototype, first measurement results and will discuss future modification in order to improve the resolution of the system.
Paper download TUPG53.PDF [0.772 MB / 3 pages]
Conference IBIC2016, Barcelona, Spain
Series International Beam Instrumentation Conference (5th)
Proceedings Link to full IBIC2016 Proccedings
Session Tuesday Poster Session
Date 13-Sep-16   16:00–18:00
Main Classification Time Resolved Diagnostics and Synchronization
Keywords laser, electron, timing, pick-up, detector
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Isidre Costa (ALBA-CELLS, Barcelona, Spain); Ubaldo Iriso (ALBA-CELLS, Barcelona, Spain); Francis Pérez (ALBA-CELLS, Barcelona, Spain); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-95450-177-9
Published February 2017
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