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Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second StableTiming and Synchronization Systems
Volker Schlott, PSI
• Motivation – Future XFELs and Time Resolved Experiments on fs-Level
• Architecture of Optical Synchronization Systems
- Fiber Lasers
- Optical Master Oscillator
- Optical Timing Distribution
• First Experimental Results
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
• Single Bunch Beam Diagnostics along Accelerator - single bunch and “sliced” beam parameters are relevant for SASE process (not rms!) - measurement locations are spread over kilometers along LINAC
⇨ highly stable timing / sync distribution on fs-level
• Stability of RF and RF Distribution - arrival time jitter of electron beam in undulator ≤ bunch length (~ 30 - 50 fs)
⇨ RF amplitude stability ~ 10-4
⇨ RF phase stability ~ 0.01 ° (21 fs @ 1.3 GHz)in injector, booster and bunch compressor
• Laser-Electron Beam and Laser-Photon Beam Interaction on a fs-Level - stable reference for seeding and HGHG generation - time-resolved (“pump-probe”) experiments at user end stations - synchronization for today’s “femto-second slicing sources” in storage rings
⇨ highly stable timing / sync distribution on fs-level
but: inherent arrival time jitter of photon pulses due to stochastic SASE process!
Motivation – Future XFELs and Time Resolved Experiments on fs-Level
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
Motivation – Schematic Layout of Timing Distribution in Future XFEL Facilities
Master Oscillator
Timing Distribution
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RF-gun / injector 23rd harm. structure
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Requirements for future 4th generation light sources:
- provision of highly stable reference with fs-stability ⇨ master oscillator
- highly stable distribution of timing and SYNC signals with jitter < 10 fs over km-length
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
Motivation: electron beam – laser arrival time jitter measurements
Timing Jitter Data (20 successive shots)
time (ps)
shot
EO cross-correlation-measurements performed by A.L.Cavalieri et al. @ SPPS, SLAC
courtesy of A.L.Cavalieri
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
- femto-second Er-doped fiber laser locked to microwave master oscillator
- transmission of RF signals ⇨ photo-detection of nth harmonics of laser rep.-rate - direct synchronization of mode-locked lasers
- stabilization ⇨ optical cross-correlation technique - first results achieved at MIT Bates accelerator: stabilizing 500 m of optical fiber to 12 fs!
Stabilized Optical Synchronization Systems – Proposed Schemes
- single frequency Er-doped cw fiber laser as optical carrier (2 kHz LW ~ 25 km coherence length)
- transmission of RF signals ⇨ amplitude modulation of cw optical carrier (wide band zero-chirp MZI)
- synchronization of mode-locked lasers ⇨ phase-locking of two optical frequencies - stabilization ⇨ down-conversion of optical phase shifts to RF (acousto-optical frequency shifter)
⇨ applying simple, inexpensive heterodyne technique at 110 MHz - first results achieved in lab: stabilizing 100 m of optical fiber to 20 fs !
in general: high precision at optical frequencies and immunity of photons to noise
Optical Heterodyne Technique - proposed by J. Staples and R. Wilcox, LBNL
Short pulse fiber lasers - proposed by A. Winter et al. (DESY), F. Kärtner et al. (MIT)
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
⇨ RF amplitude and phase stability in the order of 10 -3 to 10-4 (JLAB - sc cw-RF, DESY VUV-FEL)⇨ stability of timing / synchronization distribution typically in the order of pico-second(s)
Schematic Layout of Classical Synchronization System
low noise microwaveoscillator
diagnostics 1…n
photo-injectordrive laser system
RF fan out
low level RF station 1…n
Classical Synchronization Layout based on: - low noise microwave master oscillator
- usually (non-) stabilized RF coaxial cable distribution
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
- other lasers (for gun, diagnostics, seeding and experiments) can be linked directly
Schematic Layout of Optical Synchronization System(as proposed by Winter et al. (DESY) in collaboration with MIT)
low noise microwaveoscillator
seed laser
experiment
RF optical sync-moduleand / or pulse picker
photo-injectordrive laser system
pulse fan out
low level RF station 1…n
diagnostics 1…n
laser master oscillator
fiber stabilization(1 for each link)
Optical Synchronization Layout based on: - low noise microwave master oscillator as stable low frequency reference (DC to < 10 kHz)
- mode-locked Er-doped fiber lasers as “new” optical master oscillator
- optical fiber distribution: length stabilization over kilometers achieved with fiber stretchers
- RF can be re-generated locally by photo-detection (n th harmonic of laser rep.-rate)
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers
Noise characteristics: < 10 kHz ⇨ worse than microwave oscillators due to thermal and vibrational disturbances > 10 kHz ⇨ low-pass characteristic of pump source due to long (ms) upper state lifetime of Er
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Er-fiber (normal dispersion)
single mode fiber withanomalous dispersion
pump diode
laser port for diagnostics
Er-fiber lasers ⇨ sub 100 femto-second to pico-second pulse durations⇨ high availability of fiber-optic components @ 1550 nm (telecom)⇨ 30 – 100 MHz repetitions rates (lockable to accelerator RF)⇨ high reliability and long term stability (commercial systems available)
single sideband noise for harmonic @ 1 GHzA. Winter et. al, to be published in NIM-A
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
Er-doped Fiber Laser (non-commercial set-up by Axel Winter)
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
RF Distribution – Photo-Detection to Extract RF from Laser Pulse Train
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• RF is encoded in laser pulse repetition rate
high BW (> 10 GHz)InGa As photodiode
• signal converted to electronic domain by photo-detector
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• any suitable harmonics (nfR) can be extracted
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
Optical Fiber Stabilization Scheme (as proposed by Winter et al. (DESY) in collaboration with MIT)
• direct stabilization of group velocity in fiber• temperature effects and vibrations are compensated (fiber temp. coefficient ~ 5 x 10-6 m-1)
low noise microwaveoscillator
laser master oscillator
(mode-locked Er-fiber laser)
fine opticalcross-correlator
ultimate stabilization < 1 fs
“coarse” RF stabilization ~ 20 fs
phase noisemeasurement
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SMF link (1 - 5 km)
output coupler
photo-detection
FaradayMirror
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
First Experimental Results by Winter (DESY) and MIT co-workers
• tests in real accelerator environment @ MIT Bates laboratory• Er-doped fiber laser locked to Bates master oscillator• laser pulses transmitted through a total fiber length of 1 km• “passive” temperature stabilization of fiber link• stabilization of fiber length by RF feedback
~ 500 meters
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
First Experimental Results by Winter (DESY) and MIT co-workers
open / closed loop performance
• open loop stability 60 fs ⇨ (0.1 Hz – 5 kHz)
• closed loop stability 12 fs ⇨ (0.1 Hz – 5 kHz)
• stability achieved with “simple” RF feedback• no significant noise added at high frequencies
transmited RF-signal (2.856 GHz)
• phase lock jitter 30 fs ⇨ (10 Hz – 2 kHz)
• total jitter added 50 fs⇨• overall improvement 272 fs vs. 178 fs (up to 20 MHz)
• spurs are technical noise (pump diode PS)
Volker Schlott SV84, LL-RF Workshop, CERN, October 11th, 2005
Femto-Second Stable Timing and Synchronization Systems
Summary
Acknowledgements
• future XFELs (and today’s fs-slicing sources at storage rings) need fs stable RF and timing distribution
⇨ excellent noise performance at high frequencies
• mode-locked Er-doped fiber lasers are candidates for optical master oscillators
⇨ lockable to microwave oscillators to suppress low frequency noise ⇨ high reliability and availability of pump sources and optical components (@ 1550 nm)
⇨ applying RF feedback schemes… < 20 fs
• stabilization of fiber optical RF and timing distribution of kilometers is possible
⇨ applying optical cross correlation… < 1 fs ⇨ applying optical heterodyne techniques… < 1 fs
• stabilization of RF distribution (@ 1 GHz) demonstrated in real accelerator environment @ MIT Bates to… < 50 fs jitter (0.1 Hz – 20 MHz)
many thanks again to Axel Winter (DESY) for many instructive and inspiring discussions…!