FEL2015 - List of Authors (Heuer, M.)

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MOP040	Implementation of MTCA.4-based Controls for the Pulsed Optical Synchronization Systems at DESY	115
	M. Felber, Ł. Butkowski, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Fenner, C. Gerth, M. Heuer, E. Janas, M. Killenberg, T. Lamb, U. Mavrič, J.M. Müller, P. Peier, K.P. Przygoda, S. Ruzin, H. Schlarb, C. Sydlo, M. Titberidze, F. Zummack DESY, Hamburg, Germany T. Kozak, P. Prędki TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
	Funding: This work has partly been funded by the Helmholtz Validation Fund Project MTCA.4 for Industry (HVF-0016) With the current state of the synchronization system at FLASH (Free-electron Laser in Hamburg) the arrival time between electron bunches and optical laser pulses can be synchronized to a level of 30 fs rms, e.g. for pump-probe experiments. In the course of the development of an up-scaled system for the European XFEL and the migration of control hardware to the modern MTCA.4 (Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture) platform, all involved components of the system will be replaced with new developments. The front-end devices are upgraded. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are performing the data processing and feedback calculations. In order to facilitate the firmware development, a toolset (Rapid-X) was established which allows application engineers to develop, simulate, and generate their code without help from FPGA experts in a simple and efficient way. A software tool kit (MTCA4U) provides drivers and tools for direct register access e.g. via Matlab or Python and a control system adapter, which allows the server applications to be written control system independent. In this paper, an overview on the synchronization setups and their upgrades as well as an introduction to the new hardware is given. The Rapid-X and MTCA4U tool kits are presented followed by a status report on the implementation of the new developments.
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TUP045	MTCA.4 Phase Detector for Femtosecond-Precision Laser Synchronization	474
	E. Janas, M. Felber, M. Heuer, U. Mavrič, H. Schlarb DESY, Hamburg, Germany K. Czuba Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
	For time-resolved experiments at FELs such as the European XFEL an accurate synchronization of the machine is essential. The required femtosecond- level synchronization we plan to achieve with an optical synchronization system, in which an inherent part is the master laser oscillator (MLO) locked to the electrical reference. At DESY we develop a custom rear transition module in MTCA.4 standard, which will allow for different techniques of phase detection between the optical and the electrical signal, as well as locking to an optical reference using a cross-correlator. In this paper we present the current status of the development, including two basic solutions for the detection to an RF. One of the methods incorporates an external drift free detector based on the so-called MZI setup. The other one employs the currently used downconverter scheme with subsequent improvements. The module can serve for locking a variety of lasers with different repetition rates.
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Implementation of MTCA.4-based Controls for the Pulsed Optical Synchronization Systems at DESY

115

M. Felber, Ł. Butkowski, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Fenner, C. Gerth, M. Heuer, E. Janas, M. Killenberg, T. Lamb, U. Mavrič, J.M. Müller, P. Peier, K.P. Przygoda, S. Ruzin, H. Schlarb, C. Sydlo, M. Titberidze, F. Zummack
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
T. Kozak, P. Prędki
TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland

Funding: This work has partly been funded by the Helmholtz Validation Fund Project MTCA.4 for Industry (HVF-0016)
With the current state of the synchronization system at FLASH (Free-electron Laser in Hamburg) the arrival time between electron bunches and optical laser pulses can be synchronized to a level of 30 fs rms, e.g. for pump-probe experiments. In the course of the development of an up-scaled system for the European XFEL and the migration of control hardware to the modern MTCA.4 (Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture) platform, all involved components of the system will be replaced with new developments. The front-end devices are upgraded. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are performing the data processing and feedback calculations. In order to facilitate the firmware development, a toolset (Rapid-X) was established which allows application engineers to develop, simulate, and generate their code without help from FPGA experts in a simple and efficient way. A software tool kit (MTCA4U) provides drivers and tools for direct register access e.g. via Matlab or Python and a control system adapter, which allows the server applications to be written control system independent. In this paper, an overview on the synchronization setups and their upgrades as well as an introduction to the new hardware is given. The Rapid-X and MTCA4U tool kits are presented followed by a status report on the implementation of the new developments.

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TUP045

MTCA.4 Phase Detector for Femtosecond-Precision Laser Synchronization

474

E. Janas, M. Felber, M. Heuer, U. Mavrič, H. Schlarb
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
K. Czuba
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland

For time-resolved experiments at FELs such as the European XFEL an accurate synchronization of the machine is essential. The required femtosecond- level synchronization we plan to achieve with an optical synchronization system, in which an inherent part is the master laser oscillator (MLO) locked to the electrical reference. At DESY we develop a custom rear transition module in MTCA.4 standard, which will allow for different techniques of phase detection between the optical and the electrical signal, as well as locking to an optical reference using a cross-correlator. In this paper we present the current status of the development, including two basic solutions for the detection to an RF. One of the methods incorporates an external drift free detector based on the so-called MZI setup. The other one employs the currently used downconverter scheme with subsequent improvements. The module can serve for locking a variety of lasers with different repetition rates.

Poster TUP045 [4.010 MB]

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