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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2025-TUPD076
TitleFiber signal attenuation due to temperature
Authors
  • D. Sanchez, C. Bianchini Mattison, R. McClanahan
    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
AbstractThe SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory distributes its timing signal throughout the beam via a mix of fiber cables. It is known the RF over fiber signal is affected by temperature fluctuations causing a phase shift in the signal. That is why special consideration was taken in the design for the type of fiber and type of connector to be used for the LINAC Locking system. As the communication of the system would be a RF over fiber signal. However, there have been some instances over the years where higher temperatures have caused issues with the continuous signals going through the fibers.  The cause of the degradation of the signal would usually be a damaged fiber or degraded transceiver but increased temperatures would lead to a high enough signal loss before complete failure of the devices happened. This paper describes how SLAC takes into consideration temperature environment for troubleshooting efforts and possible design considerations to make for future developments.
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Conference20th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS'25)
Series
LocationChicago, IL, USA
Date20-26 Sep 2025
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial BoardKent Wootton (ANL), Jeffery Biss (FNAL), Gustavo Bruno (ANL), Jeff Kirchman (ANL), Kelly Jaje (ANL), Denise Skiadopoulos (ANL), SuYin Grass Wang (ANL)
Online ISBN978-3-95450-255-4
Online ISSN2226-0358
Received13 September 2025
Revised23 September 2025
Accepted14 October 2025
Issued25 November 2025
DOI10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2025-TUPD076
Pages680-681