Author: Schnepp, S.
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WEPC41 Comparative Analysis of Different Electro-Optical Intensity Modulator Candidates for the New 40 GHz Bunch Arrival Time Monitor System for FLASH and European XFEL 782
 
  • A. Kuhl, J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, J. Roßbach
    Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
  • M.K. Czwalinna, C. Gerth, H. Schlarb, C. Sydlo
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • S. Schnepp
    ETH Zurich, Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IFH), Zurich, Switzerland
  • T. Weiland
    TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Funding: The work is supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) within FSP 301 under the contract numbers 05K10GU2 and 05K10RDA.
The currently installed Bunch Arrival time Monitors (BAMs) at the Free electron LASer in Hamburg (FLASH) achieved a time resolution of less than 10 fs for bunch charges higher than 500 pC. In order to achieve single spike FEL pulses at FLASH, electron bunch charges down to 20 pC are of interest. With these BAMs the required time resolution is not reachable for bunch charges below 500 pC. Therefore new pickups with a bandwidth of up to 40 GHz are designed and manufactured*. The signal evaluation takes place with a time-stabilized reference laser pulse train which is modulated with an Electro-Optical intensity Modulator (EOM). The new BAM system also requires new EOMs for the electro-optical frontend. The available selection of commercial EOM candidates for the new frontend is very limited. In this paper we present a comparison between different EOM candidates for the new electro optical frontend.
* A. Angelovski et al. Proceedings Phys. Rev ST AB, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.112803
 
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