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WEOBB01	Design and Performance of the Optical Fiber Length Stabilization System for SACLA	1906
	H. Maesaka, T. Ohshima, Y. Otake RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan S. Matsubara JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan
	The x-ray free electron laser facility, SACLA, requires timing synchronization accuracies of less than 50 fs for acceleration rf components and less than 10 fs for pump-and-probe user experiments. Although a stable timing distribution system with optical fiber cables was constructed, a timing drift of more than 100 fs has been observed after the transmission of about 100 m. In order to suppress optical fiber length drift, we developed and installed an optical fiber length stabilization system with a Michelson interferometer. A frequency-stabilized laser with a wavelength of 1.5 um is transmitted together with a timing signal and it is reflected back to the interferometer. The length signal from the interferometer is fed back to a fiber stretcher for fiber length control. A prototype system showed that the length of a 1km-long optical fiber in a feedback loop was stabilized within 0.1 um corresponding to 0.5 fs. From this result, a timing accuracy improvement of pump-and-probe experiments can be expected. In this presentation, the design and basic performance of the optical fiber length stabilization system and the operational experience at SACLA will be reported. H. Maesaka et al., Proceedings of FEL’08, 352 (2008). ** H. Maesaka et al., Proceedings of FEL’12, 325 (2012).
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Design and Performance of the Optical Fiber Length Stabilization System for SACLA

1906

H. Maesaka, T. Ohshima, Y. Otake
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan
S. Matsubara
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan

The x-ray free electron laser facility, SACLA, requires timing synchronization accuracies of less than 50 fs for acceleration rf components and less than 10 fs for pump-and-probe user experiments. Although a stable timing distribution system with optical fiber cables was constructed*, a timing drift of more than 100 fs has been observed after the transmission of about 100 m**. In order to suppress optical fiber length drift, we developed and installed an optical fiber length stabilization system with a Michelson interferometer. A frequency-stabilized laser with a wavelength of 1.5 um is transmitted together with a timing signal and it is reflected back to the interferometer. The length signal from the interferometer is fed back to a fiber stretcher for fiber length control. A prototype system showed that the length of a 1km-long optical fiber in a feedback loop was stabilized within 0.1 um corresponding to 0.5 fs. From this result, a timing accuracy improvement of pump-and-probe experiments can be expected. In this presentation, the design and basic performance of the optical fiber length stabilization system and the operational experience at SACLA will be reported.
* H. Maesaka et al., Proceedings of FEL’08, 352 (2008).
** H. Maesaka et al., Proceedings of FEL’12, 325 (2012).

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