IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Peier, P.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUPC086	A Setup for Single Shot Electro Optical Bunch Length Measurements at the ANKA Storage Ring	1206
	N. Hiller, E. Huttel, A.-S. Müller, A. Plech KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany F. Müller, P. Peier, V. Schlott PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
	Funding: Supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under VH-NG-320. Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under contract number 05K10VKC Single shot electro optical bunch length measurements, in particular using spectral decoding, are foreseen for the ANKA storage ring. This will allow to resolve fast changes of bunch deformation and structure during the low alpha operation (2-15 ps rms bunch length). This technique uses a chirped laser pulse to probe the field induced birefringence in an electro optical crystal. The laser pulse is then analyzed in a single shot spectrometer. To obtain the birefringence modulation one can either use the near field of the electron bunch (placing the crystal close to the electron bunch in the UHV system of the storage ring), or the far field (coherent synchrotron radiation in the THz range at a THz-/IR-Beamline). The laser needs to supply: sufficient tunability of pulse length, a wide spectrum to allow for a sub-ps resolution. Additionally it must provide a mode-locked operation synchronized to the bunch revolution clock. For this purpose, a mode locked Ytterbium fibre laser system which operates at 10³⁰ nm has been developed at the Paul-Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. We give an overview over the experimental set up in the ANKA storage ring and the status of the project.

TUPC085	Observation of Microwave Radiation using Low-cost Detectors at the ANKA Storage Ring	1203
	V. Judin, N. Hiller, A. Hofmann, E. Huttel, B. Kehrer, M. Klein, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, M.J. Nasse, N.J. Smale KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany F. Caspers CERN, Geneva, Switzerland P. Peier PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
	Funding: Work supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract number VH-NG-320 Synchrotron light sources emit Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) for wavelengths longer than or equal to the bunch length. At most storage rings CSR cannot be observed because the waveguide cuts off radiation with long wavelengths. There are different approaches for shifting the CSR to shorter wavelengths that can propagate through the beam pipe, e.g.: The accelerator optics can be optimized for a low momentum compaction factor, thus reducing the bunch length. Alternatively, laser slicing can modulate substructures on long bunches. Both techniques extend the CSR spectrum to shorter wavelengths, so that CSR is emitted at wavelengths above the waveguide cut off. Usually fast detectors, like superconducting bolometer detector systems or Schottky barrier diodes, are used for observation of dynamic processes in accelerator physics. In this paper, we present observations of microwave radiation at ANKA using an alternative detector, a LNB (Low Noise Block) system. These devices are usually used in standard TV-SAT-receivers and are very cheap. We determined the time response of LNBs to be below 100 ns. The sensitivity of LNBs is optimized to detect very low intensity "noise-like" signals.

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A Setup for Single Shot Electro Optical Bunch Length Measurements at the ANKA Storage Ring

1206

N. Hiller, E. Huttel, A.-S. Müller, A. Plech
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
F. Müller, P. Peier, V. Schlott
PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

Funding: Supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under VH-NG-320. Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under contract number 05K10VKC
Single shot electro optical bunch length measurements, in particular using spectral decoding, are foreseen for the ANKA storage ring. This will allow to resolve fast changes of bunch deformation and structure during the low alpha operation (2-15 ps rms bunch length). This technique uses a chirped laser pulse to probe the field induced birefringence in an electro optical crystal. The laser pulse is then analyzed in a single shot spectrometer. To obtain the birefringence modulation one can either use the near field of the electron bunch (placing the crystal close to the electron bunch in the UHV system of the storage ring), or the far field (coherent synchrotron radiation in the THz range at a THz-/IR-Beamline). The laser needs to supply: sufficient tunability of pulse length, a wide spectrum to allow for a sub-ps resolution. Additionally it must provide a mode-locked operation synchronized to the bunch revolution clock. For this purpose, a mode locked Ytterbium fibre laser system which operates at 10³⁰ nm has been developed at the Paul-Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. We give an overview over the experimental set up in the ANKA storage ring and the status of the project.

TUPC085

Observation of Microwave Radiation using Low-cost Detectors at the ANKA Storage Ring

1203

V. Judin, N. Hiller, A. Hofmann, E. Huttel, B. Kehrer, M. Klein, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, M.J. Nasse, N.J. Smale
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
F. Caspers
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
P. Peier
PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

Funding: Work supported by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association under contract number VH-NG-320
Synchrotron light sources emit Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) for wavelengths longer than or equal to the bunch length. At most storage rings CSR cannot be observed because the waveguide cuts off radiation with long wavelengths. There are different approaches for shifting the CSR to shorter wavelengths that can propagate through the beam pipe, e.g.: The accelerator optics can be optimized for a low momentum compaction factor, thus reducing the bunch length. Alternatively, laser slicing can modulate substructures on long bunches. Both techniques extend the CSR spectrum to shorter wavelengths, so that CSR is emitted at wavelengths above the waveguide cut off. Usually fast detectors, like superconducting bolometer detector systems or Schottky barrier diodes, are used for observation of dynamic processes in accelerator physics. In this paper, we present observations of microwave radiation at ANKA using an alternative detector, a LNB (Low Noise Block) system. These devices are usually used in standard TV-SAT-receivers and are very cheap. We determined the time response of LNBs to be below 100 ns. The sensitivity of LNBs is optimized to detect very low intensity "noise-like" signals.