LBNL, Berkeley, California
Long-term phase drifts of less than a femtosecond per hour have been demonstrated in a 2 km length of single-mode optical fiber, stabilized interferometrically at 1530 nm. Recent improvements include a wide-band phase detector that reduces the possibility of fringe jumping due to fast external perturbations of the fiber and locking of the master CW laser wavelength to a molecular absorption line. Mode-locked lasers may be synchronized using two wavelengths of the comb, multiplexed over one fiber, each wavelength individually interferometrically stabilized.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
LBNL, Berkeley, California
IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
A prototype of an analog, transverse (vertical) feedback system for active damping of the two-stream (e-p) instability has been developed and successfully tested at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Proton Storage Ring (PSR). This system was able to improve the instability threshold by approximately 30% (as measured by the change in RF buncher voltage at instability threshold). Evidence obtained from these tests suggests that further improvement in performance is limited by beam leakage into the gap at lower RF buncher voltage and the onset of instability in the horizontal plane, which had no feedback. Here we describe the present system configuration, system optimization, results of several recent experimental tests, and results from studies of factors limiting its performance.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The FEL process increases radiation flux by several orders of magnitude above existing incoherent sources, and offers the additional enhancements attainable by optical manipulations of the electron beam: control of the temporal duration and bandwidth of the coherent output, and wavelength; utilization of harmonics to attain shorter wavelengths; and precise synchronization of the x-ray pulse with laser systems. We describe an FEL facility concept based on a high repetition rate RF photocathode gun, that would allow simultaneous operation of multiple independent FELs, each producing high average brightness, tunable over the soft x-ray-VUV range, and each with individual performance characteristics determined by the configuration of the FEL SASE, enhanced-SASE (ESASE), seeded, self-seeded, harmonic generation, and other configurations making use of optical manipulations of the electron beam may be employed, providing a wide range of photon beam properties to meet varied user demands. FELs would be tailored to specific experimental needs, including production of ultrafast pulses even into the attosecond domain, and high temporal coherence (i.e. high resolving power) beams.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
LBNL, Berkeley, California
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
A prototype of an analog, transverse (vertical) feedback system for active damping of the two-stream (e-p) instability has been developed and successfully tested at the Los Alamos Proton Storage Ring (PSR). This talk describes the system configuration, results of several experimental tests and studies of system optimization along with studies of the factors limiting its performance.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
ELETTRA, Basovizza, Trieste
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC will be the brightest X-ray laser in the world when it comes on line. In order to achieve the brightness a 100fS length electron bunch is passed through an undulator. To creat the 100fS bunch, a 10pS electron bunch, created from a photo cathode in an RF gun, is run off crest on the RF to set up a position to energy correlation. The bunch is then compressed chicanes. The stability of the RF system is critical in setting up the position to energy correlation. Specifications derived from simulations require the RF system to be stable to below 100fS in several critical injector stations and the last kilometer of linac. The SLAC linac RF system is being upgraded to meet these requirements.
ASP, Clayton, Victoria
LBNL, Berkeley, California
CERN, Geneva
CEA, Grenoble
LBNL, Berkeley, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
We present the results of measurements of the electron cloud intensity in the PEP-II low energy ring (LER) by propagating a TE wave into the beam pipe. Connecting a pulse generator to a beam position monitor button we can excite a signal above the vacuum chamber cut-off and measure its propagation with a spectrum analyzer connected to another button a few meters away. The measurement can be performed with different beam conditions and also at different settings of the solenoids used to reduce the build up of electrons. The presence of a modulation in the TE wave transmission, synchronous with the beam revolution frequency and only measurable with the solenoids off, would be directly correlated to the intensity of the electron cloud phenomenon in the relative region of the ring. In this paper we present and discuss our measurements taken near Interaction Region 12 on the LER, during 2006 and early 2007.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Y. Y. Labs, Inc., Fremont, California
We present the results of an experimental study of a beam timing monitor based on a technique demonstrated by Loehl*. This technique uses the electrical signal from a beam position monitor to amplitude-modulate a train of laser pulses, converting timing jitter into an amplitude jitter. This modulation is then measured with a photodetector and sampled by a fast ADC. This approach has already demonstrated sub-100 fsec resolution and promises even better results. Our study focuses on the use of this technique for precision timing for storage rings. We show results of measurements using signals from the Advanced Light Source.
* F. Loehl, et al., Proc. of the 2006 EPAC., p. 2781.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Streak camera is an important diagnostic device in the studies of laser plasma interaction, the detailed structure of photo reaction from material science to biochemistry, and in the measurement of the longitudinal distribution of a beam in accelerators. In this paper, we report on a new method which can potentially improve the temporal resolution of a streak camera down to femtoseconds. This method uses a time-dependent acceleration field to defocus the photo electrons longitudinally. This not only reduces the time dispersion distortion caused by initial energy spread but also mitigates the effects from the space-charge forces. An illustration of the method shows significant improvement of the modulation transfer function (MFT) compared with the conventional design.