IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Schlarb, H.)

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Realization of a High Bandwidth Bunch Arrival-time Monitor with Cone-shaped Pickup Electrodes for FLASH and XFEL

1177

A. Angelovski, M. Hansli, R. Jakoby, A. Kuhl, A. Penirschke, S. Schnepp
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Bousonville, H. Schlarb
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
T. Weiland
TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05K10RDA
In the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) an electro-optical system is used as a Bunch Arrival time Monitor (BAM). The time-of-arrival resolution is proportional to the steepness of the beam pick-up signal at the first zero-crossing*. Future experiments will be conducted using significantly lower bunch charges resulting in a reduced signal steepness. This requires BAM pickup electrodes with increased bandwidth as introduced in **. This paper presents the implementation and measurement results of a high bandwidth cone-shaped pickup capable of operating in the frequency range up to 40 GHz. The slope steepness at the zero crossing is investigated for a simplified equivalent circuit model. RF-measurements have been performed using a non-hermetic prototype of the BAM pickups for assessing the influence of manufacturing tolerances on the sensor performance. The measurements are compared to simulation results obtained by CST PARTICLE STUDIO®.
* F. Loehl et al., Proc. of DIPAC2007, WEPB15, p. 262 (2007).
** A. Angelovski et al., "Pickup design for a high resolution Bunch Arrival time Monitor for FLASH and XFEL", DIPAC2011.

TUPC079

Sensitivity and Tolerance Analysis of a New Bunch Arrival-time Monitor Pickup Design for FLASH and XFEL

1186

A. Kuhl, A. Angelovski, R. Jakoby, A. Penirschke, S. Schnepp
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Bousonville, H. Schlarb
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
T. Weiland
TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: Supported by the Graduate School of Computational Engineering at TU Darmstadt and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05K10RDA "Weiterentwickung eines Ankunftszeitmonitors"
The Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) is equipped with Bunch Arrival Time Monitors (BAM)*, which provide for a time resolution of less than 10 fs for bunch charges higher than 0.2 nC. Future experiments, however, will aim at generating FEL light pulses from a broad range of bunch charges down to 10 pC. In these circumstances the requirements on the time resolution will no longer be fulfilled, which demands for a larger bandwidth of the pickup system. A new cone-shaped pickup, which has a bandwidth greater than 40 GHz has been proposed**. At high frequencies, small manufacturing tolerances might have great influence on the pickup signal. A sensitivity analysis of several manufacturing tolerances in the pickup design regarding their influence on the output signal was carried out (by means of CST PARTICLE STUDIO®). These results are utilized for setting limits to the manufacturing tolerances.
* M.K. Bock et al., IPAC2010, WEOCMH02, Kyoto, Japan, 2010.
** A. Kuhl et al., "Design eines hochauflösenden Ankunftszeitmonitor für FLASH", DPG Frühjahrstagung 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.

MOPC154

RF Photo Gun Stability Measurement at PITZ

442

I.I. Isaev, H.-J. Grabosch, M. Gross, L. Hakobyan, Ye. Ivanisenko, G. Klemz, W. Köhler, M. Krasilnikov, M. Mahgoub, D. Malyutin, A. Oppelt, M. Otevřel, B. Petrosyan, S. Rimjaem, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, S. Weidinger, R.W. Wenndorff
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
G. Asova
INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria
M. Hoffmann, H. Schlarb
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
M.A. Khojoyan
YerPhI, Yerevan, Armenia
D. Richter
HZB, Berlin, Germany
A. Shapovalov
NRNU MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
I.H. Templin, I. Will
MBI, Berlin, Germany

The stability of the RF phase in the RF photo injector gun is one of the most important factors for the successful operation of linac based free-electron lasers. Instabilities in the RF launch phase can significantly reduce the beam quality. Investigation on the dependence of different gun parameters and selection of optimal conditions are required to achieve high RF gun phase stability. The phase stability of the RF field is measured using the phase scan technique. Measurements were performed for different operating conditions at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, location Zeuthen (PITZ). Obtained stability measurement results will be presented and discussed.

MOPO037

Concept of Femtosecond Timing and Synchronization Scheme at ELBE

565

M. Kuntzsch, A. Büchner, M. Gensch, A. Jochmann, T. Kirschke, U. Lehnert, F. Röser
HZDR, Dresden, Germany
M.K. Bock, M. Bousonville, M. Felber, T. Lamb, H. Schlarb, S. Schulz
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The Radiation Source ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is undergoing an extension to offer capacity for various applications. The extension includes the setup of a THz-beamline with a dedicated laboratory and a beamline for electron-beam - high-power laser interaction. The current synchronization scheme offers stability on the picoseconds level. For pump-probe experiments using optical lasers, the desired synchronization between the pump and the probe pulse should be on the femtosecond scale. In the future there will be an optical synchronization system with a pulsed fiber laser as an optical reference. The laser pulses will be distributed over stabilized fiber links to the remote stations. It is planned to install EOM-based beam arrival time monitors (BAMs) in order to monitor the bunch jitter and to establish a beam-based feedback to reduce the jitter. Besides that, the timing system has to be revised to generate triggers for experiments with low repetition rate, two electron guns (thermionic DC, superconducting RF) and several lasers. The Poster will show the possible layout of the future Timing and Synchronization System at ELBE.

TUZA02

sFLASH - Present Status and Commissioning Results

923

V. Miltchev, S. Ackermann, A. Azima, J. Bödewadt, F. Curbis, M. Drescher, E. Hass, Th. Maltezopoulos, M. Mittenzwey, J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, J. Roßbach, R. Tarkeshian
Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
H. Delsim-Hashemi, K. Honkavaara, T. Laarmann, H. Schlarb, S. Schreiber, M. Tischer
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
R. Ischebeck
PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
S. Khan
DELTA, Dortmund, Germany

The free-electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH) was previously being operated in the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mode, producing photons in the XUV wavelength range. Due to the start-up from noise the SASE-radiation consists of a number of uncorrelated modes, which results in a reduced coherence. One option to simultaneously improve both the coherence and the synchronisation between the FEL-pulse and an external laser is to operate FLASH as an amplifier of a seed produced using high harmonics generation (HHG). An experimental set-up - sFLASH, has been installed to test this concept for the wavelengths below 40 nm. The sFLASH installation took place during the planed FLASH shutdown in the winter of 2009/2010. The technical commissioning, which began in the spring of 2010, has been followed by seeded-FEL commissioning, FEL-characterisation and pilot experiments. In this contribution the present status and the sFLASH commissioning results will be discussed.

Slides TUZA02 [4.125 MB]

THPC111

Operation of an L-band RF Gun with Pulses Inside the Burst Mode RF Pulse

3146

V. Vogel, V. Ayvazyan, B. Faatz, K. Flöttmann, D. Lipka, P. Morozov, H. Schlarb, S. Schreiber
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) is a user facility since 2005, delivering femtosecond short radiation pulses in the wavelength range between 4.1 and 44 nm using the SASE principle. In FLASH, the electron beam is accelerated to 1.25 GeV with L-band superconducting cavities. The electron source is a normal conducting RF-gun photoinjector. The L-band standing wave RF gun has one and a half cells. The gun is operated in burst mode with an RF pulse length of up to 900 microseconds and a repetition rate of 10 Hz. Several hundreds to thousands of bunches are accelerated per second. With 5 MW of pulsed forward power, the dissipated power inside the RF gun is 45 kW. In this paper we propose an operational mode which allows us to reduce the dissipated power to ease operation or to increase the effective duty cycle in the gun by pulsing the gun within one burst. We report on first experimental results at FLASH, where an RF burst of 46μRF-pulses with a length of 10 microseconds separated by 10 microseconds has been successfully generated reducing the dissipated power by a factor of 2.

THPC114

High Brightness Photo Injector Upgrade and Experimental Optimization at PITZ

3152

M. Krasilnikov, H.-J. Grabosch, M. Gross, Ye. Ivanisenko, G. Klemz, W. Köhler, M. Mahgoub, D. Malyutin, A. Oppelt, M. Otevřel, B. Petrosyan, S. Rimjaem, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, S. Weidinger, R.W. Wenndorff
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
G. Asova
INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria
L. Hakobyan, M.A. Khojoyan
YerPhI, Yerevan, Armenia
M. Hoffmann, H. Schlarb
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
I.I. Isaev, A. Shapovalov
MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
M.A. Nozdrin
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
D. Richter
HZB, Berlin, Germany
I.H. Templin, I. Will
MBI, Berlin, Germany

The photo injector test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ) develops and optimizes electron sources for linac driven free electron lasers. The main goal of PITZ is to demonstrate a small electron beam emittance by tuning several main parameters of the injector - photo cathode laser pulse, rf gun with solenoids and booster cavity parameters. A slit scan technique is used to measure the transverse phase space of the electron beam and the projected normalized emittance. The photo injector is capable of pulse train production which can be measured with dedicated diagnostics at PITZ. This enables optimization of the beam emittance for a wide range of bunch charges from tens of pC to several nC while keeping high resolution of beam measurements. The results of the experimental optimization will be presented yielding a new benchmark of photo injector performance.

Paper	Title	Page
TUPC076	Realization of a High Bandwidth Bunch Arrival-time Monitor with Cone-shaped Pickup Electrodes for FLASH and XFEL	1177
	A. Angelovski, M. Hansli, R. Jakoby, A. Kuhl, A. Penirschke, S. Schnepp TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany M. Bousonville, H. Schlarb DESY, Hamburg, Germany T. Weiland TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05K10RDA In the Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) an electro-optical system is used as a Bunch Arrival time Monitor (BAM). The time-of-arrival resolution is proportional to the steepness of the beam pick-up signal at the first zero-crossing. Future experiments will be conducted using significantly lower bunch charges resulting in a reduced signal steepness. This requires BAM pickup electrodes with increased bandwidth as introduced in . This paper presents the implementation and measurement results of a high bandwidth cone-shaped pickup capable of operating in the frequency range up to 40 GHz. The slope steepness at the zero crossing is investigated for a simplified equivalent circuit model. RF-measurements have been performed using a non-hermetic prototype of the BAM pickups for assessing the influence of manufacturing tolerances on the sensor performance. The measurements are compared to simulation results obtained by CST PARTICLE STUDIO®. F. Loehl et al., Proc. of DIPAC2007, WEPB15, p. 262 (2007). ** A. Angelovski et al., "Pickup design for a high resolution Bunch Arrival time Monitor for FLASH and XFEL", DIPAC2011.

TUPC079	Sensitivity and Tolerance Analysis of a New Bunch Arrival-time Monitor Pickup Design for FLASH and XFEL	1186
	A. Kuhl, A. Angelovski, R. Jakoby, A. Penirschke, S. Schnepp TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany M. Bousonville, H. Schlarb DESY, Hamburg, Germany T. Weiland TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: Supported by the Graduate School of Computational Engineering at TU Darmstadt and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05K10RDA "Weiterentwickung eines Ankunftszeitmonitors" The Free Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) is equipped with Bunch Arrival Time Monitors (BAM), which provide for a time resolution of less than 10 fs for bunch charges higher than 0.2 nC. Future experiments, however, will aim at generating FEL light pulses from a broad range of bunch charges down to 10 pC. In these circumstances the requirements on the time resolution will no longer be fulfilled, which demands for a larger bandwidth of the pickup system. A new cone-shaped pickup, which has a bandwidth greater than 40 GHz has been proposed. At high frequencies, small manufacturing tolerances might have great influence on the pickup signal. A sensitivity analysis of several manufacturing tolerances in the pickup design regarding their influence on the output signal was carried out (by means of CST PARTICLE STUDIO®). These results are utilized for setting limits to the manufacturing tolerances. M.K. Bock et al., IPAC2010, WEOCMH02, Kyoto, Japan, 2010. ** A. Kuhl et al., "Design eines hochauflösenden Ankunftszeitmonitor für FLASH", DPG Frühjahrstagung 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.

MOPC154	RF Photo Gun Stability Measurement at PITZ	442
	I.I. Isaev, H.-J. Grabosch, M. Gross, L. Hakobyan, Ye. Ivanisenko, G. Klemz, W. Köhler, M. Krasilnikov, M. Mahgoub, D. Malyutin, A. Oppelt, M. Otevřel, B. Petrosyan, S. Rimjaem, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, S. Weidinger, R.W. Wenndorff DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany G. Asova INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria M. Hoffmann, H. Schlarb DESY, Hamburg, Germany M.A. Khojoyan YerPhI, Yerevan, Armenia D. Richter HZB, Berlin, Germany A. Shapovalov NRNU MEPHI, Moscow, Russia I.H. Templin, I. Will MBI, Berlin, Germany
	The stability of the RF phase in the RF photo injector gun is one of the most important factors for the successful operation of linac based free-electron lasers. Instabilities in the RF launch phase can significantly reduce the beam quality. Investigation on the dependence of different gun parameters and selection of optimal conditions are required to achieve high RF gun phase stability. The phase stability of the RF field is measured using the phase scan technique. Measurements were performed for different operating conditions at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, location Zeuthen (PITZ). Obtained stability measurement results will be presented and discussed.

MOPO037	Concept of Femtosecond Timing and Synchronization Scheme at ELBE	565
	M. Kuntzsch, A. Büchner, M. Gensch, A. Jochmann, T. Kirschke, U. Lehnert, F. Röser HZDR, Dresden, Germany M.K. Bock, M. Bousonville, M. Felber, T. Lamb, H. Schlarb, S. Schulz DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The Radiation Source ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is undergoing an extension to offer capacity for various applications. The extension includes the setup of a THz-beamline with a dedicated laboratory and a beamline for electron-beam - high-power laser interaction. The current synchronization scheme offers stability on the picoseconds level. For pump-probe experiments using optical lasers, the desired synchronization between the pump and the probe pulse should be on the femtosecond scale. In the future there will be an optical synchronization system with a pulsed fiber laser as an optical reference. The laser pulses will be distributed over stabilized fiber links to the remote stations. It is planned to install EOM-based beam arrival time monitors (BAMs) in order to monitor the bunch jitter and to establish a beam-based feedback to reduce the jitter. Besides that, the timing system has to be revised to generate triggers for experiments with low repetition rate, two electron guns (thermionic DC, superconducting RF) and several lasers. The Poster will show the possible layout of the future Timing and Synchronization System at ELBE.

TUZA02	sFLASH - Present Status and Commissioning Results	923
	V. Miltchev, S. Ackermann, A. Azima, J. Bödewadt, F. Curbis, M. Drescher, E. Hass, Th. Maltezopoulos, M. Mittenzwey, J. Rönsch-Schulenburg, J. Roßbach, R. Tarkeshian Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany H. Delsim-Hashemi, K. Honkavaara, T. Laarmann, H. Schlarb, S. Schreiber, M. Tischer DESY, Hamburg, Germany R. Ischebeck PSI, Villigen, Switzerland S. Khan DELTA, Dortmund, Germany
	The free-electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH) was previously being operated in the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) mode, producing photons in the XUV wavelength range. Due to the start-up from noise the SASE-radiation consists of a number of uncorrelated modes, which results in a reduced coherence. One option to simultaneously improve both the coherence and the synchronisation between the FEL-pulse and an external laser is to operate FLASH as an amplifier of a seed produced using high harmonics generation (HHG). An experimental set-up - sFLASH, has been installed to test this concept for the wavelengths below 40 nm. The sFLASH installation took place during the planed FLASH shutdown in the winter of 2009/2010. The technical commissioning, which began in the spring of 2010, has been followed by seeded-FEL commissioning, FEL-characterisation and pilot experiments. In this contribution the present status and the sFLASH commissioning results will be discussed.
	Slides TUZA02 [4.125 MB]

THPC111	Operation of an L-band RF Gun with Pulses Inside the Burst Mode RF Pulse	3146
	V. Vogel, V. Ayvazyan, B. Faatz, K. Flöttmann, D. Lipka, P. Morozov, H. Schlarb, S. Schreiber DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH) is a user facility since 2005, delivering femtosecond short radiation pulses in the wavelength range between 4.1 and 44 nm using the SASE principle. In FLASH, the electron beam is accelerated to 1.25 GeV with L-band superconducting cavities. The electron source is a normal conducting RF-gun photoinjector. The L-band standing wave RF gun has one and a half cells. The gun is operated in burst mode with an RF pulse length of up to 900 microseconds and a repetition rate of 10 Hz. Several hundreds to thousands of bunches are accelerated per second. With 5 MW of pulsed forward power, the dissipated power inside the RF gun is 45 kW. In this paper we propose an operational mode which allows us to reduce the dissipated power to ease operation or to increase the effective duty cycle in the gun by pulsing the gun within one burst. We report on first experimental results at FLASH, where an RF burst of 46μRF-pulses with a length of 10 microseconds separated by 10 microseconds has been successfully generated reducing the dissipated power by a factor of 2.

THPC114	High Brightness Photo Injector Upgrade and Experimental Optimization at PITZ	3152
	M. Krasilnikov, H.-J. Grabosch, M. Gross, Ye. Ivanisenko, G. Klemz, W. Köhler, M. Mahgoub, D. Malyutin, A. Oppelt, M. Otevřel, B. Petrosyan, S. Rimjaem, F. Stephan, G. Vashchenko, S. Weidinger, R.W. Wenndorff DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany G. Asova INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria L. Hakobyan, M.A. Khojoyan YerPhI, Yerevan, Armenia M. Hoffmann, H. Schlarb DESY, Hamburg, Germany I.I. Isaev, A. Shapovalov MEPhI, Moscow, Russia M.A. Nozdrin JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia D. Richter HZB, Berlin, Germany I.H. Templin, I. Will MBI, Berlin, Germany
	The photo injector test facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ) develops and optimizes electron sources for linac driven free electron lasers. The main goal of PITZ is to demonstrate a small electron beam emittance by tuning several main parameters of the injector - photo cathode laser pulse, rf gun with solenoids and booster cavity parameters. A slit scan technique is used to measure the transverse phase space of the electron beam and the projected normalized emittance. The photo injector is capable of pulse train production which can be measured with dedicated diagnostics at PITZ. This enables optimization of the beam emittance for a wide range of bunch charges from tens of pC to several nC while keeping high resolution of beam measurements. The results of the experimental optimization will be presented yielding a new benchmark of photo injector performance.