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TY - CONF AU - Şafak, K. AU - Berlin, A. AU - Cano Vargas, E. AU - Cheng, H.P.H. AU - Dai, A. AU - Derksen, J. AU - Kärtner, F.X. AU - Neuhaus, M. AU - Schiepel, P. ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Decking, Winfried ED - Sinn, Harald ED - Geloni, Gianluca ED - Schreiber, Siegfried ED - Marx, Michaela TI - Balanced Optical-Microwave Phase Detector for 800-nm Pulsed Lasers with Sub-Femtosecond Resolution J2 - Proc. of FEL2019, Hamburg, Germany, 26-30 August 2019 CY - Hamburg, Germany T2 - Free Electron Laser Conference T3 - 39 LA - english AB - Novel light-matter interaction experiments conducted in free-electron lasers, ultrafast electron diffraction instruments and extreme light infrastructures require synchronous operation of microwave sources with femtosecond pulsed lasers [1]. In particular, Ti:sapphire lasers have become the most common near-infrared light source used in these facilities due to their wide-range tunability and their ability to generate ultrashort pulses at around 800-nm optical wavelength [2]. Therefore, a highly sensitive optical-to-microwave phase detector operating at 800 nm is an indispensable tool to synchronize these ubiquitous lasers to the microwave clocks of these facilities. Electro-optic sampling is one approach that has proven to be the most precise in extracting the relative phase noise between microwaves and optical pulse trains. However, their implementation at 800-nm wavelength has been so far limited [3]. Here, we show a balanced optical-microwave phase detector designed for 800-nm operation based on electro-optic sampling. The detector has a timing resolution of 0.01 fs RMS for offset frequencies above 100 Hz and a total noise floor of less than 10 fs RMS integrated from 1 Hz to 1 MHz. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 322 EP - 324 KW - laser KW - detector KW - timing KW - electron KW - operation DA - 2019/11 PY - 2019 SN - "" SN - 978-3-95450-210-3 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP003 UR - http://jacow.org/fel2019/papers/wep003.pdf ER -