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@PHDTHESIS{Heuer:405671,
author = {Heuer, Michael},
othercontributors = {Lichtenberg, Gerwald and Pfeiffer, Sven},
title = {{I}dentification and {C}ontrol of the {L}aser-based
{S}ynchronization {S}ystem for the {E}uropean {X}-ray {F}ree
{E}lectron {L}aser},
school = {Technische Universität Hamburg},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Hamburg},
publisher = {Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron},
reportid = {PUBDB-2018-02247, DESY-THESIS-2018-018},
series = {DESY-THESIS},
pages = {164},
year = {2018},
note = {Dissertation, Technische Universität Hamburg, 2017},
abstract = {The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser is currently under
construction at theDeutsches ElektronenSynchrotron in
Hamburg, Germany. This linear accelerator, with a length of
3.4 km,will generate extremely intense and short X-ray laser
light pulses with a duration in the femtosecondrange and
wavelengths down to 0.05 nm. These laser pulses provide
physicists with alight source to take a closer look into
small structures on atomic scale.Those precise measurements
require timing with an error margin in the femto-second
rangefor most subsystems within the facility. Usually, this
timing signal is distributed electricallyvia coaxial cables.
With the new requirements in timing, this kind of
distribution is no longersuitable and a new laser-based
synchronization system is used. This system generates a
laserpulse train via a master laser oscillator and
distributes this via optical fiber to multiple endstationsin
the facility.The effective length of the optical path inside
the fiber is actively stabilizedby a link stabilizing
unit.This thesis analyzes this new system from a control
point of view. It is shown that the masterlaser oscillator
can be modeled by an integrator, with the H2 norm as the
performance criteriaand two filters corresponding to the
noise and disturbances of the master laser oscillator
itselfas well as the electrical oscillator of the facility.
Those influences, as well as the dynamic behaviorof the
master laser oscillator, are identified for a laboratory
setup. With these models inhand, different controllers are
designed and experimentally evaluated. A sufficient
controllerperformance can be achieved by a PI controller.
However, using a feedback controller witha model-based
optimization increase this performance, but these require a
high order of thecontroller, which is currently not
implementable given the installed hardware.The second part
of thiswork analyses the link stabilizing units. This is
achievedwith an attachedoptical fiber and a timing
measurement by an optical cross correlator. If a short
optical fiber isconnected the system can be approximated by
a third order system with a time delay of a fewsample.
Amodel is identified and used for controller design. It can
be shown that a performanceincrease by factor of 4.5 can be
achieved if an LQG controller, including a model of the
timedelay, is used instead of the previously used PI
controller. Moreover, different approaches forlong optical
fibers and the operation in the non-linear region of the
sensor are shown. Thesecould not be tested in an
experiment.The work closes with an analysis of the overall
system and gives suggestions of how to increasethe
performance of the individual components and of the whole
laser-based synchronizationsystem including the attached
devices. It will be shown that the optimal performance can
beachieved if all systems are connected to the laser-based
synchronization system and if the dynamicbehavior of the
link stabilizing unit and end-station is equal for all
subsystems.},
cin = {MSK},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)MSK-20120731},
pnm = {6G13 - XFEL (POF3-622)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G13},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)XFEL-Exp-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)29 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2018-02247},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/405671},
}