Author: Schütte, M.
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TUPAB291 Subsystem Level Data Acquisition for the Optical Synchronization System at European XFEL 2167
 
  • M. Schütte, A. Eichler, T. Lamb, V. Rybnikov, H. Schlarb, T. Wilksen
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  The optical synchronization system for the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser provides sub-10 femtosecond timing precision * for the accelerator subsystems and experiments. This is achieved by phase locking a mode-locked laser oscillator to the main RF reference and distributing the optical pulse train carrying the time information via actively propagation-time stabilized optical fibers to multiple end-stations. Making up roughly one percent of the entire European XFEL, it is the first subsystem to receive a large-scale data acquisition system [2] for storing not just hand-selected information, but in fact all diagnostic, monitoring, and configuration data relevant to the optical synchronization available from the distributed control system infrastructure. A minimum of 100 TB per year may be stored in a persistent archive for long-term health monitoring and data mining whereas excess data is stored in a short-term ring buffer for high-resolution fault analysis and feature extraction algorithm development. This paper describes scale, challenges and first experiences from the optical synchronization data acquisition system.
* S. Schulz et al., "Few-Femtosecond Facility-Wide Sync. of the European XFEL," in Proc. FEL’19
** T. Wilksen et al., "A Bunch-Sync. DAQ System for the European XFEL," in Proc. ICALEPCS’17
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB291  
About • paper received ※ 14 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 17 June 2021       issue date ※ 24 August 2021  
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