TY - GEN
T1 - Single-shot longitudinal bunch profile measurements at FLASH using electro-optic detection
T2 - experiment, simulation, and validation
AU - Steffen, B.
AU - Knabbe, E. A.
AU - Schlarb, H.
AU - Schmidt, B.
AU - Schmüser, P.
AU - Gillespie, W. Allan
AU - Phillips, P. J.
AU - Jamison, S. P.
AU - Berden, G.
AU - van der Meer, A. F. G.
AU - MacLeod, Allan M.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - At the superconducting linac of FLASH at DESY, we have installed an electro-optic (EO) experiment for single- shot, non-destructive measurements of the longitudinal electric charge distribution of individual electron bunches. The time profile of the electric bunch field is electro- optically encoded onto a chirped titanium-sapphire laser pulse. In the decoding step, the profile is retrieved either from a cross-correlation of the encoded pulse with a 30 fs laser pulse, obtained from the same laser (electro- optic temporal decoding, EOTD), or from the spectral intensity of the transmitted probe pulse (electro-optic spectral decoding, EOSD). At FLASH, the longitudinally compressed electron bunches have been measured during FEL operation with a resolution of better than 50 fs. The electro-optic process in gallium phosphide was numerically simulated using as input data the bunch shapes determined with a transverse-deflecting RF structure. In this contribution, we present electro-optically measured bunch profiles and compare them with the simulation.
AB - At the superconducting linac of FLASH at DESY, we have installed an electro-optic (EO) experiment for single- shot, non-destructive measurements of the longitudinal electric charge distribution of individual electron bunches. The time profile of the electric bunch field is electro- optically encoded onto a chirped titanium-sapphire laser pulse. In the decoding step, the profile is retrieved either from a cross-correlation of the encoded pulse with a 30 fs laser pulse, obtained from the same laser (electro- optic temporal decoding, EOTD), or from the spectral intensity of the transmitted probe pulse (electro-optic spectral decoding, EOSD). At FLASH, the longitudinally compressed electron bunches have been measured during FEL operation with a resolution of better than 50 fs. The electro-optic process in gallium phosphide was numerically simulated using as input data the bunch shapes determined with a transverse-deflecting RF structure. In this contribution, we present electro-optically measured bunch profiles and compare them with the simulation.
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 310
EP - 313
BT - Proceedings of the 29th International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL07), Novosibirsk, August 26-31 2007
ER -