TY - CONF AU - Lamb, Thorsten AU - Butkowski, Lukasz AU - Felber, Matthias AU - Felber, Ewa AU - Fenner, Michael AU - Jablonski, Szymon AU - Kozak, Tomasz AU - Mueller, Joachim AU - Predki, Pawel AU - Schlarb, Holger AU - Sydlo, Cezary AU - Titberidze, Mikheil AU - Zummack, Falco TI - Laser-to-RF Synchronization with Femtosecond Precision M1 - PUBDB-2017-11736 SP - 4 PY - 2017 AB - Optical synchronization systems are already in regular operation in many FELs, or they will eventually be implemented in the future. In FLASH and the European XFEL, phase-stableoptical reference signals are provided by a pulsed optical synchronization system in order to achieve low timing jitter FEL performance. The generation of phase-stable RF signalsfrom a pulsed optical synchronization system is still a field of active research. The optical reference module (REFM-OPT), designed at DESY for operation in both FELs, employs a laser-to-RF phase detector, based on an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The phase drift of the 1.3 GHz RF reference signals with respect to the optical pulses is measured and actively corrected within the REFM-OPT at multiple locations in the accelerator. Therefore the REFM-OPT provides phase stable 1.3 GHz RF reference signals at these locations.The short-term and long-term performance in the accelerator tunnel of the European XFEL is presented and carefully reviewed. T2 - 38th International Free-Electron Laser Conference CY - 20 Aug 2017 - 25 Aug 2017, Santa Fe (USA) Y2 - 20 Aug 2017 - 25 Aug 2017 M2 - Santa Fe, USA LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2017-11736 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/393891 ER -