Measurements of the X-ray/pump laser pulse timing
Valery Dolgashev, David Fritz, Yiping Feng, Gordon BowdenSLAC
48th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Future Light Sources , March 1-5, 2010, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,Menlo Park, California
This work is funded by SLAC LDRD program
Motivation•LCLS promises to capture the molecular action of a chemical reaction “frame by frame” using the pump-probe technique.
•In due time, ALL LCLS instruments will be performing pump-probe experiments.
•This requires either controlling the time delay to a value that is a fraction of the LCLS pulse duration (80 fs but a 2 fs operating mode already demonstrated) or measuring the timing on a shot-by-shot basis and processing the data accordingly.
•The e-beam jitter is 50 fs rms so a diagnostic must used to improve this value.
•The diagnostic must be non-destructive, robust, relatively insensitive to FEL fluctuations and operate over the full LCLS wavelength range.
Current Capabilities
• FEL-Pump laser timing measured indirectly with e-beam phase cavity and RF distribution system
• All of the sources of jitter and drift will limit the temporal resolution to ~80 fs rms (180 fs FWHM)– 50 fs e-beam to RF– 50 fs laser to RF– 30 fs RF distribution– 20 fs e-beam cavity resolution
~ 150 m (NEH)
~ 420 m (FEH)
IdeaWe propose to directly measure relative time jitter of X-ray and pump laser pulse near the sample using a cavity excited by X-ray-initiated photoelectrons with about 10 femtosecond resolution.
The device can be located just before the sample to non-invasively monitor the relative timing jitter of X-ray and pump laser pulse.
Timing cavity (version 20100226)
X-ray pulse
rf probe
target
electron bunch
Solid Model: Robert Reed, SLAC
14 m
m
Photoelectric Effect
Target (Al/Si 3
N 4)FEL pulses
electronescape depth(10-100 nm)
hn
• Generate core (k-shell) electrons– Cross-section
– Kinetics• Very mono-energetic for hard x-rays
– Limited to certain depth given by electron mean free path– Prompt ~ fs time scale
n cossin2 2 22 27
254520
dependentZ
eshellk
hcmZr
dd
nn hhEk max
polarization
Prompt electronbunch
Total primary e- yield
• Energy dependent• Z dependent
Sufficient to ring RF cavity
Be Primary Photoelectrons100 nm escape depth
1.0E-14
1.0E-13
1.0E-12
1.0E-11
1.0E-10
1.0E-09
1.0E-08
1 10 100
Photon Energy (keV)
K-e
lect
rons
(C)
Al
Be
0 0.5 10123456789
10
U ii 2 Vm
2
EstHFSS
VpC
ii
0 5 100
0.10.20.30.40.50.60.70.80.9
1
0.32222
U ii 2 Vm
2
EstHFSS
VpC
5.6 1.3 5.6 1.3
E ii kV
VpC
200pC( )2 2 fHFSSQHFSS
0.32222 0.3548515W fHFSS 9.64 1091s
1010 qe 1.6021765 10 9 CfHFSSQHFSS
1228.2157676s 10 9
Electrical design, 9.64 GHz version
Timing cavity assembly
Solid Model: Robert Reed, SLAC
φ
ΣΔ
photodiode
reference cavity
attenuator
phase shifter
amplifier
amplifiercavity with x-ray target 3dB
hybrid
mixer
mixer
oscillator
digitizerIFLO
LOIFRF
RF
Timing detector circuit
1 [email protected]=290fs, [email protected]= 29fs, 9um
Status• We making drawings of timing cavity• Reference cavity is (almost) done• We ordering targets• We plan to start two-cavity commissioning this
summer
Commissioning:• Characterize amplitude and phase jitter of rf signals
including their coupling• Study coupling of position jitter and phase jitter• …
Cavity#1 Cavity#2X-ray pulse
High gradient streak camerafor X-ray – laser pulse timing
ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: Tenth Workshop. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 647, pp. 810-820 (2002).
J. Haimson, B. Mecklenburg, G. Stowell and B. Ishii, “A Circularly Polarized Beam Deflector for Direct Measurement of Ultra Short Electron Bunches,” ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: Tenth Workshop. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 647, pp. 810-820 (2002).
Standing Wave Deflector
for ~10 fs diagnostics of MeV beams
Waveguide coupler for 6 cell SW 11.424 GHz deflector
Periodic cell of Pi standing wave deflector,0.25 MW/cell, deflecting gradient 26 MV/m
Maximum surface electric fields 105 MV/m.Maximum surface magnetic fields 410 kA/m,Pulse heating 23 deg. C for 100 ns pulse.
a = 6 mmt = 2 mm, round irisQ=7,792
Waveguide coupler for 6 cell SW X-band deflector,
1.5 MW of input power, deflection 2 MeV
Maximum surface electric fields ~105 MV/m.Maximum surface magnetic fields ~420 kA/m,Pulse heating 24 deg. C for 100 ns pulse.
Parameters of 6 cell X-band SW deflectorFrequency 11.424 GHz
Beam pipe diameter 10 mmOne cell length 13.121 mmPhase advance per cell πOne cell kick 0.34 MeV/Sqrt(0.25 MW)Structure kick (6 cells) 2 MeV/Sqrt(1.5 MW)Unloaded Q 7800Loaded Q 3800Maximum Electric field 105 MV/m / Sqrt(1.5 MW)Maximum Magnetic field 420 (kA/m) / Sqrt(1.5 MW)Structure length (with beam pipes) 12 cmNear mode separation 13.6 MHz
Basic parametersqe 1.602 C 10 19
me 9.109kg 10 31
λ c11.424GHz
: εn 1μm:
βd 5m: En 10 qe MV:
Vt 2MV:
δtλ
2 π c Vt qe
εn En me c2
βd:
δt 7.042fs
High gradient streak camera
X-ray pulse
pump laser pulse
Electrons from X-ray
pulseElectrons from X-ray
pulse
Photocathode, 200 MV/m, 11GHz, ~2…6MW120 MV/m, 3 GHz, ~10 MW
Booster, ~1…10 MV3GHz, ~5MW11GHz,~1MW
Vertical deflector, 8MV@3GHz, ~10MW2MV@11GHz,~1.5MW
Vertical deflector (optional), 8MV@3GHz, ~10MW2MV@11GHz,~1.5MW
φ
0.1deg@3GHz=93fs0.1deg@11GHz=25fs