FEL2015 - List of Authors (Mueller, J.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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WEP030	First Lasing of an HGHG Seeded FEL at FLASH	646
	K.E. Hacker, S. Khan, R. Molo DELTA, Dortmund, Germany S. Ackermann, Ph. Amstutz, A. Azima, M. Drescher, L.L. Lazzarino, C. Lechner, Th. Maltezopoulos, T. Plath, J. Roßbach Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany S. Ackermann, R.W. Aßmann, J. Bödewadt, N. Ekanayake, B. Faatz, I. Hartl, R. Ivanov, T. Laarmann, J.M. Müller DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	Funding: Supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany under contract No. 05K1GU4 and 05K10PE1 and the German Research Foundation program graduate school 1355. The free-electron laser facility FLASH at DESY operates in SASE mode with MHz bunch trains of high-intensity extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray FEL pulses. A seeded beamline which is designed to be operated parasitically to the main SASE beamline has been used to test different external FEL seeding methods. First lasing at the 7th harmonic of a 266 nm seed laser using high-gain harmonic generation has been demonstrated. Studies of the influence of the microbunching instability are being pursued.
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WEP047	Femtosecond Timing Distribution at the European XFEL	669
	C. Sydlo, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Felber, C. Gerth, J.M. Müller, H. Schlarb, F. Zummack DESY, Hamburg, Germany S. Jabłoński Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
	Accurate timing synchronization on the femtosecond timescale is an essential installation for time-resolved experiments at free-electron lasers (FELs) such as FLASH and the upcoming European XFEL. To date the required precision levels can only be achieved by a laser-based synchronization system. Such a system has been successfully deployed at FLASH and is based on the distribution of femtosecond laser pulses over actively stabilized optical fibers. For time-resolved experiments and for special diagnostics it is crucial to synchronize various laser systems to the electron beam with a long-term stability of better than 10 fs. The upcoming European XFEL has raised the demands due to its large number of stabilized optical fibers and a length of 3400 m. Specifically the increased lengths for the stabilized fibers had necessitated major advancement in precision to achieve the requirement of less than 10 fs precision. This extensive rework of the active fiber stabilization has led to a system exceeding the current existing requirements and is even prepared for increasing demands in the future. This paper reports on the laser-based synchronization system focusing on the active fiber stabilization for the European XFEL, discusses major complications, their solutions and the most recent performance results.
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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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WEP030

First Lasing of an HGHG Seeded FEL at FLASH

646

K.E. Hacker, S. Khan, R. Molo
DELTA, Dortmund, Germany
S. Ackermann, Ph. Amstutz, A. Azima, M. Drescher, L.L. Lazzarino, C. Lechner, Th. Maltezopoulos, T. Plath, J. Roßbach
Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
S. Ackermann, R.W. Aßmann, J. Bödewadt, N. Ekanayake, B. Faatz, I. Hartl, R. Ivanov, T. Laarmann, J.M. Müller
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Funding: Supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany under contract No. 05K1GU4 and 05K10PE1 and the German Research Foundation program graduate school 1355.
The free-electron laser facility FLASH at DESY operates in SASE mode with MHz bunch trains of high-intensity extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray FEL pulses. A seeded beamline which is designed to be operated parasitically to the main SASE beamline has been used to test different external FEL seeding methods. First lasing at the 7th harmonic of a 266 nm seed laser using high-gain harmonic generation has been demonstrated. Studies of the influence of the microbunching instability are being pursued.

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WEP047

Femtosecond Timing Distribution at the European XFEL

669

C. Sydlo, M.K. Czwalinna, M. Felber, C. Gerth, J.M. Müller, H. Schlarb, F. Zummack
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
S. Jabłoński
Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland

Accurate timing synchronization on the femtosecond timescale is an essential installation for time-resolved experiments at free-electron lasers (FELs) such as FLASH and the upcoming European XFEL. To date the required precision levels can only be achieved by a laser-based synchronization system. Such a system has been successfully deployed at FLASH and is based on the distribution of femtosecond laser pulses over actively stabilized optical fibers. For time-resolved experiments and for special diagnostics it is crucial to synchronize various laser systems to the electron beam with a long-term stability of better than 10 fs. The upcoming European XFEL has raised the demands due to its large number of stabilized optical fibers and a length of 3400 m. Specifically the increased lengths for the stabilized fibers had necessitated major advancement in precision to achieve the requirement of less than 10 fs precision. This extensive rework of the active fiber stabilization has led to a system exceeding the current existing requirements and is even prepared for increasing demands in the future. This paper reports on the laser-based synchronization system focusing on the active fiber stabilization for the European XFEL, discusses major complications, their solutions and the most recent performance results.

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