%0 Conference Paper
%A Titberidze, Mikheil
%A Gruener, F.
%A Zeitler, B.
%A Felber, M.
%A Floettmann, K.
%A Lamb, T.
%A Schlarb, H.
%A Sydlo, C.
%A Janas, E.
%A Maier, Andreas
%T Novel Femtosecond Level Synchronization of Titanium Sapphire Laser and Relativistic Electron Beams
%M PUBDB-2014-04684
%D 2014
%X Laser driven plasma accelerators are offering high gradient (∼10-100 GV/m), high quality (low emittance, short bunch length) electron beams, which can be suitable for future compact, bright and tunable light sources. In the framework of the Laboratory for Laser-and beam-drivenplasma Acceleration (LAOLA) collaboration at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) the external injection experiment for injecting electron bunches from a conventional RF accelerator into the linear plasma wave is in progress. External injection experiments at REGAE (Relativistic Elec-tron gun for Atomic Exploration) require sub-20fs precision synchronization of laser and electron beams in order to perform a beam scan into the plasma wave by varying the delay between electron beam and laser pulses. In this paper we present a novel optical to microwave synchronizationscheme, based on a balanced single output integrated Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM). The scheme offers a highly sensitive phase detector between a pulsed 800 nm Ti:Sa. laser and a 3 GHz microwave reference source. It is virtually independent of input laser power fluctuations and it offers femtosecond long-term precision. Together with the principal of operation of this setup, we will present promising preliminary experimental measurements of the new detector stability.
%B 3rd International Beam Instrumentation Conference
%C 14 Sep 2014 - 18 Sep 2014, Monterey, California (USA)
Y2 14 Sep 2014 - 18 Sep 2014
M2 Monterey, California, USA
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)8
%9 Contribution to a conference proceedings
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/205282