Author: Barber, S.K.
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THBR05
An integrated scheme for online correction of laser focal position  
 
  • N.M. Cook, S.J. Coleman, J.P. Edelen, R. Nagler
    RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • S.K. Barber, J. van Tilborg
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics under Award Number DE-SC 00259037.
High repetition-rate, ultrafast laser systems play a critical role in a host of modern scientific and industrial applications. We present a prototype diagnostic and correction scheme for controlling laser focal position for operation at 10s of Hz. Our strategy is to couple fast wavefront sensor measurements at multiple positions to generate a focal position prediction. We then train a neural network to predict the specific adjustments to adaptive actuators along the beamline to provide the desired correction to the focal position at 10s of ms timescales. Our initial proof-of-principle demonstrations leverage pre-compiled data and pre-trained networks operating ex-situ from the laser system. We then discuss the application of a high-level synthesis framework for generating a low-level hardware description of ML-based correction algorithms on FPGA hardware coupled directly to the beamline. Lastly, we consider the use of remote computing resources, such as the Sirepo scientific framework*, to actively update these correction schemes in the presence of new data
*M.S. Rakitin et al., ’Sirepo: an open-source cloud-based software interface for X-ray source and optics simulations," Journal of Synchrotron Radiation25, 1877-1892 (Nov 2018).
 
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