Author: Felber, M.
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MOPD07 New MTCA.4-based Hardware Developments for the Control of the Optical Synchronization Systems at DESY 152
 
  • M. Felber, M.K. Czwalinna, H.T. Duhme, M. Fenner, C. Gerth, M. Heuer, T. Lamb, U. Mavrič, J.M. Mueller, P. Peier, H. Schlarb, S. Schulz, B. Steffen, C. Sydlo, M. Titberidze, T. Walter, R. Wedel, F. Zummack
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • E. Janas
    Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
  • T. Kozak, P. Prędki, K.P. Przygoda
    TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
  • J. Szewiński
    NCBJ, Świerk/Otwock, Poland
 
  Funding: This work has partly been funded by the Helmholtz Validation Fund Project MTCA.4 for Industry (HVF-0016)
The optical synchronization group at DESY is operating and continuously enhancing their laser-based synchronization systems for various facilities which need femtosecond-stable timing. These include the free-electron lasers FLASH and the upcoming European XFEL as well as the electron diffraction machine REGAE and the plasma acceleration test facilities. One of the major upgrades under development is the migration of the entire electronic control hardware to the new MTCA.4 platform which was introduced as the new standard for accelerator control in many facilities worldwide. In this paper we present the applied modules and the topology of the new systems. Main advantages are a compact design with higher performance, redundancy, and remote management.
 
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MOPD12 Novel Femtosecond Level Synchronization of Titanium Sapphire Laser and Relativistic Electron Beams 174
 
  • M. Titberidze, F.J. Grüner, A.R. Maier
    Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Felber, K. Flöttmann, T. Lamb, H. Schlarb, C. Sydlo
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • F.J. Grüner, A.R. Maier, B. Zeitler
    CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
  • E. Janas
    Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw, Poland
 
  Laser driven plasma accelerators are offering high gradient (~ 10-100GV/m), high quality (low emittance, short bunch length) electron beams which can be suitable for future compact, bright and tunable light sources. In the framework of the Laboratory for Laser- and beam-driven plasma Acceleration (LAOLA) collaboration at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) the external injection experiment for injecting electron bunches from a conventional RF accelerator into the linear plasma wave is in progress. External injection experiments at REGAE (Relativistic Electron gun for Atomic Exploration) require sub-10 fs precision synchronization of laser and electron beams in order to perform a beam scan into the plasma wave by varying the delay between electron beam and laser pulses. In this paper we present a novel optical to microwave synchronization scheme, based on a balanced single output integrated Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM). The scheme offers a highly sensitive phase detector between a pulsed 800 nm Ti:Sa laser and a 3GHz microwave reference source. It is virtually independent of input laser power fluctuation and it offers femtosecond long-term precision. Together with the principal of operation of this setup, we will present promising preliminary experimental results of the detector stability.  
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