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TY - CONF AU - Grün, C. AU - Schreiber, S. AU - Schulz, T. ED - Yamazaki, Yoshishige ED - Facco, Alberto ED - McCausey, Amy ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - A Laser Pulse Controller for the Injector Laser at FLASH and European XFEL J2 - Proc. of LINAC2016, East Lansing, MI, USA, 25-30 September 2016 C1 - East Lansing, MI, USA T2 - Linear Accelerator Conference T3 - 28 LA - english AB - FLASH is a multi-beamline free-electron laser user facility which provides femtosecond long high brilliant photon pulses in the extreme-UV and soft-X ray wavelength range. One pulsed superconducting linac accelerates electron bunches for two undulator beamlines, while a third beamline is under construction. Within each RF-pulse, trains of hundreds of electron bunches are produced in a photo-cathode RF gun, accelerated in the linac and distributed by fast kickers into the undulator beamlines. In order to fulfill the parameter ranges of the multiple user experiments each bunch train can be tuned individually in bunch number from 0 - 800, spacing from 1 μs - 25 μs and intensity from 0.1 nC - 1 nC. To make this possible, three injector laser systems are used and this allows FLASH to vary independently the laser settings for the designated undulator beamlines. A laser controller has been developed to make a multi-users operation mode possible. The controller uses a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to control the time structure of the laser pulses and it provides the interface for the timing and the machine protection system. The controller has been implemented using the MicroTCA.4 technology. The controller was ported to the injector laser system at the European XFEL facility and is in operation since end 2015. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 882 EP - 884 KW - laser KW - operation KW - timing KW - undulator KW - hardware DA - 2017/05 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-169-4 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2016-THPLR019 UR - http://jacow.org/linac2016/papers/thplr019.pdf ER -