| Title |
Precise Laser-to-RF Synchronization of Photocathode Lasers |
| Authors |
- M. Titberidze, M. Felber, T. Kozak, T. Lamb, J. Müller, H. Schlarb, S. Schulz, C. Sydlo, F. Zummack
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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| Abstract |
RF photo-injectors are used in various large, mid and small-scale accelerator facilities such as X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs), external injection-based laser-driven plasma accelerators (LPAs) and ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) sources. Many of these facilities require a high precision synchronization of the photo-injector laser system, either because of beam dynamics reasons or the photo-injector directly impacting pump-probe experiments carried out to study physical processes on femtosecond timescales. It is thus crucial to achieve synchronization in the order of 10 fs rms or below between the photocathode laser and the RF source driving the RF gun. In this paper, we present the laser-to-RF synchronization setup employed to lock a commercial near-infrared (NIR) photocathode laser oscillator to a 2.998 GHz RF source. Together with the first results achieving ~ 10 fs rms timing jitter in the measurement bandwidth from 10 Hz up to 1 MHz, we describe an advanced synchronization setup as a future upgrade, promising even lower timing jitter and most importantly long-term timing drift stability.
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| Conference |
FEL2019 |
| Series |
Free Electron Laser Conference (39th) |
| Location |
Hamburg, Germany |
| Date |
26-30 August 2019 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Winfried Decking (DESY, Hamburg, Germany); Harald Sinn (EuXFEL, Schenefeld, Germany); Gianluca Geloni (EuXFEL, Schenefeld, Germany); Siegfried Schreiber (DESY, Hamburg, Germany); Michaela Marx (DESY, Hamburg, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-210-3 |
| Online ISSN |
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| Received |
20 August 2019 |
| Accepted |
27 August 2019 |
| Issue Date |
05 November 2019 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP016 |
| Pages |
364-367 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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