FEL2011 - List of Authors (Ludwig, F.)

Paper	Title	Page
THPA12	Beam Energy Measurements in the FLASH Injector using Synchrotron Radiation and Bunch Arrival Monitors	489
	C. Gerth, M.K. Bock, M. Hoffmann, F. Ludwig, H. Schlarb, Ch. Schmidt DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The high beam energy stability required for stable operation of linac-driven free-electron lasers demands for precise cavity RF field regulation. This is in particular true for the accelerator modules at low beam energies which are used to induce an energy correlation on the electron beam for longitudinal bunch compression in magnetic chicanes. At FLASH, a major upgrade of the injector has taken place in the shutdown 2009/2010 including the installation of a 3rd harmonic accelerating module, exchange of modulators and re-cabling and temperature stabilization of the low-level RF electronics. Several beam-based techniques have been developed recently which can be used to monitor the beam energy with high precision or as fast feedbacks for the RF regulation. In this paper, we report on bunch-resolved energy measurements recorded independently with a synchrotron radiation monitor and two bunch arrival monitors. Good agreement between the monitors was found and the measurement data are compared with the results from RF detection.

THPA32	Femtosecond Stable Laser-to-RF Phase Detection Using Optical Modulators	551
	T. Lamb, M.K. Bock, M. Bousonville, M. Felber, P. Gessler, F. Ludwig, S. Ruzin, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, S. Schulz DESY, Hamburg, Germany E. Janas Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
	Free-Electron Lasers like FLASH and the European XFEL require the synchronization of RF stations to the optical timing reference of the accelerator. For this purpose, a new technique to phase-lock RF sources to an optical pulse train has been invented. The new technique uses an opto-microwave coupling device together with an ultra-low phase-noise RF source operating at a frequency of 1.3 GHz. In our arrangement, the laser-to-RF phase detector is insensitive to amplitude fluctuations of the optical reference pulse train, which allows the detector to achieve femtosecond precision over long time periods. In this paper, we present the balanced laser-to-RF phase detection principle along with a tolerance study of the arrangement and first results from our prototype setup.

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Beam Energy Measurements in the FLASH Injector using Synchrotron Radiation and Bunch Arrival Monitors

489

C. Gerth, M.K. Bock, M. Hoffmann, F. Ludwig, H. Schlarb, Ch. Schmidt
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The high beam energy stability required for stable operation of linac-driven free-electron lasers demands for precise cavity RF field regulation. This is in particular true for the accelerator modules at low beam energies which are used to induce an energy correlation on the electron beam for longitudinal bunch compression in magnetic chicanes. At FLASH, a major upgrade of the injector has taken place in the shutdown 2009/2010 including the installation of a 3rd harmonic accelerating module, exchange of modulators and re-cabling and temperature stabilization of the low-level RF electronics. Several beam-based techniques have been developed recently which can be used to monitor the beam energy with high precision or as fast feedbacks for the RF regulation. In this paper, we report on bunch-resolved energy measurements recorded independently with a synchrotron radiation monitor and two bunch arrival monitors. Good agreement between the monitors was found and the measurement data are compared with the results from RF detection.

THPA32

Femtosecond Stable Laser-to-RF Phase Detection Using Optical Modulators

551

T. Lamb, M.K. Bock, M. Bousonville, M. Felber, P. Gessler, F. Ludwig, S. Ruzin, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, S. Schulz
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
E. Janas
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Free-Electron Lasers like FLASH and the European XFEL require the synchronization of RF stations to the optical timing reference of the accelerator. For this purpose, a new technique to phase-lock RF sources to an optical pulse train has been invented. The new technique uses an opto-microwave coupling device together with an ultra-low phase-noise RF source operating at a frequency of 1.3 GHz. In our arrangement, the laser-to-RF phase detector is insensitive to amplitude fluctuations of the optical reference pulse train, which allows the detector to achieve femtosecond precision over long time periods. In this paper, we present the balanced laser-to-RF phase detection principle along with a tolerance study of the arrangement and first results from our prototype setup.