Real-Time Longitudinal Profile Measurement of Operational H− Beam at the SNS Linac Using a Laser Comb
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Y. Liu, A.V. Aleksandrov, C.D. Long
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
We demonstrate a novel technique to measure the longitudinal profile of an operational hydrogen ion (H−) beam in a non intrusive, real-time fashion. The measurement is conducted based on the photo-ionization of the ion beam with a phase modulated laser comb pico-second laser pulses with controllable temporal structure. The measurement technique has been applied to a 1-GeV, 1.4-MW H− beam at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) high energy beam transport (HEBT). A stroboscopic photo-graph of H− beamμbunch can be obtained by using a phase modulated laser comb. The entire measurement takes only 700 us.
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