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WEPAL040 High Precision Synchronization Development for HiRES, the Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Beamline at LBNL 2262
 
  • Y. Yang, K.M. Baptiste, M. Betz, L.R. Doolittle, Q. Du, D. Filippetto, G. Huang, F. Ji
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  
  Precise synchronization between the laser and electron is critical for the pump-probe experiments in the HiRES Ultrafast Electron Diffraction facility. We are upgrading the LLRF and laser control system, which ultimately aims at a synchronization below 50 fs RMS between the pump laser pulse and electron probe at the sample plane. Such target poses tight requirements on the RF field stability both in amplitude and phase, and on the synchronization between the RF field and the laser repetition rate. We are presently developing a new LLRF system that has the potential to decrease the overall noise, reaching the required stability of tens of ppm on RF amplitude and phase. For the laser control side, we are replacing the long coaxial cables with fibers for both control signal transmission and laser signal reception. The control transmission side has been implemented, and the timing jitter has been reduced.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-WEPAL040  
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WEPAL041 FPGA Based Optical Phase Control for Coherent Laser Pulse Stacking 2265
 
  • Y. Yang, L.R. Doolittle, Q. Du, G. Huang, W. Leemans, R.B. Wilcox, T. Zhou
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • A. Galvanauskas
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  
  Coherent temporal pulse stacking combines the energy from a train of pulses into one pulse through a series of optical cavities. To stabilize the output energy, the cavity roundtrip phases must be precisely locked to particular values. Leveraging the LLRF expertise we have for conventional accelerators, a FPGA-based control system has been developed for optical cavity phase control. A phase measurement method, ''Modulated Impulse Response'', has been developed and implemented on FPGA. An experiment demonstrated that it can measure and lock the optical phases of four stacking cavities, leading to combination of 25 pulses into one pulse with 1.5 % RMS stability over 30 hours.  
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THPML099 Phase Extraction and Stabilization for Coherent Pulse Stacking 4895
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  • Y.L. Xu, W.-H. Huang, C.-X. Tang, L.X. Yan
    TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • L.R. Doolittle, Q. Du, G. Huang, W. Leemans, D. Li, R.B. Wilcox, Y. Yang, T. Zhou
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • A. Galvanauskas
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Coherent pulse stacking (CPS) is a new time-domain coherent addition technique that stacks several optical pulses into a single output pulse, enabling high pulse energy and high average power. We model the CPS as a digital filter in the Z domain, and implement two deterministic algorithms extracting the cavity phase from limited data where only the pulse intensity is available. In a 2-stage 15-pulse CPS system, each optical cavity is stabilized at an individually-prescribed round-trip phase with 0.7 deg and 2.1 deg RMS phase errors for Stage 1 and Stage 2 respectively. Optical cavity phase control with nm accuracy ensures 1.2% intensity stability of the stacked pulse over 12 hours. 		 
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