Author: Steffen, B.
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WEP015 Electro-Optical Bunch Length Detection at the European XFEL 360
 
  • B. Steffen, M.K. Czwalinna, C. Gerth
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • S. Bielawski, C. Evain, E. Roussel, C. Szwaj
    PhLAM/CERCLA, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France
 
  The electro-optical bunch length detection system based on electro-optic spectral decoding has been installed and is being commissioned at the European XFEL. The system is capable of recording individual longitudinal bunch profiles with sub-picosecond resolution at a bunch repetition rate of 1.13MHz . Bunch lengths and arrival times of entire bunch trains with single-bunch resolution have been measured as well as jitter and drifts for consecutive bunch trains. In addition, we are testing a second electro-optical detection strategy, the so-called photonic time-stretching, which consists of imprinting the electric field of the bunch onto a chirped laser pulse, and then "stretching" the output pulse by optical means. As a result, we obtain is a slowed down "optical replica" of the bunch shape, which can be recorded using a photodiode and GHz-range acquisition. These tests are performed in parallel with the existing spectral decoding technique based on a spectrometer in order to allow a comparative study. In this paper, we present first results for both detection strategies from electron bunches after the second bunch compressor of the European XFEL.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP015  
About • paper received ※ 24 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 28 August 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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WEP035 NIR Spectrometer for Bunch-Resolved, Non-Destructive Studies of Microbunching at European XFEL 392
 
  • S. Fahlström, M. Hamberg
    Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  • C. Gerth, N.M. Lockmann, B. Steffen
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  At the European X-ray Free Electron Laser high brilliance femtosecond FEL radiation pulses are generated for user experiments. For this to be achieved electron bunches must be reliably produced within very tight tolerances. In order to investigate the presence of micro-bunching, i.e. charge density variation along the electron bunch with features in the micron range, a prism-based NIR spectrometer with an InGaAs sensor, sensitive in the wavelength range 900 nm to 1700 nm was installed. The spectrometer utilizes diffraction radiation (DR) generated at electron beam energies of up to 17.5 GeV. The MHz repetition rate needed for bunch resolved measurements is made possible by the KALYPSO line detector system, providing a read-out rate of up to 2.7 MHz. We present the first findings from commissioning of the NIR spectrometer, and measurements on the impact of the laser heater system for various bunch compression settings, in terms of amplitude and bunch-to-bunch variance of the NIR spectra as well as FEL pulse energy.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP035  
About • paper received ※ 20 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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WEP048 FLASH Photoinjector Laser Systems 430
 
  • S. Schreiber, C. Grün, K. Klose, J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, B. Steffen
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The free-electron laser facility FLASH at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) operates two undulator beamlines simultaneously for FEL operation and a third for plasma acceleration experiments (FLASHForward). The L-band superconducting technology allows accelerating fields of up to 0.8 ms in length at a repetition rate of 10 Hz (burst mode). A fast kicker-septum system picks one part of the 1 MHz electron bunch train and kicks it to the second beamline such that two beamlines are operated simultaneously with the full repetition rate of 10 Hz. The photoinjector operates three laser systems. They have different pulse durations and transverse shapes and are chosen to serve best for the given user experiment in terms of electron bunch charge, bunch compression, and bunch pattern. It is also possible to operate the laser systems on the same beamline to provide specific double pulses for certain type of experiments.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP048  
About • paper received ※ 26 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 27 August 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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