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TY - CONF AU - Titberidze, M. AU - Felber, M. AU - Kozak, T. AU - Lamb, T. AU - Müller, J. AU - Schlarb, H. AU - Schulz, S. AU - Sydlo, C. AU - Zummack, F. ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Decking, Winfried ED - Sinn, Harald ED - Geloni, Gianluca ED - Schreiber, Siegfried ED - Marx, Michaela TI - Precise Laser-to-RF Synchronization of Photocathode Lasers J2 - Proc. of FEL2019, Hamburg, Germany, 26-30 August 2019 CY - Hamburg, Germany T2 - Free Electron Laser Conference T3 - 39 LA - english AB - RF photo-injectors are used in various large, mid and small-scale accelerator facilities such as X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs), external injection-based laser-driven plasma accelerators (LPAs) and ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) sources. Many of these facilities require a high precision synchronization of the photo-injector laser system, either because of beam dynamics reasons or the photo-injector directly impacting pump-probe experiments carried out to study physical processes on femtosecond timescales. It is thus crucial to achieve synchronization in the order of 10 fs rms or below between the photocathode laser and the RF source driving the RF gun. In this paper, we present the laser-to-RF synchronization setup employed to lock a commercial near-infrared (NIR) photocathode laser oscillator to a 2.998 GHz RF source. Together with the first results achieving ~ 10 fs rms timing jitter in the measurement bandwidth from 10 Hz up to 1 MHz, we describe an advanced synchronization setup as a future upgrade, promising even lower timing jitter and most importantly long-term timing drift stability. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 364 EP - 367 KW - laser KW - timing KW - electron KW - controls KW - experiment DA - 2019/11 PY - 2019 SN - "" SN - 978-3-95450-210-3 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP016 UR - http://jacow.org/fel2019/papers/wep016.pdf ER -