Photoinjector Experiments: Beam and Accelerator Characterization

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Photoinjector Experiments Beam and Accelerator
Characterization
William S. Graves MIT with contributions from A.
Doyuran (UCLA), H. Loos (SLAC), E. Johnson, J.
Rose, T. Shaftan, B. Sheehy, L-H Yu of
BNL Presented at Frascati November, 2006
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Talk Outline

• Intro to BNLs DUVFEL facility
• Measuring transverse and time profiles of UV
  drive laser.
• Thermal emittance measurement using solenoid
  scan.
• Beam-based measurement of photoinjector fields.
• Streak camera time resolution.
• Electron beam longitudinal distribution measured
  using RF zero phasing method.
• Slice transverse parameters are measured by
  combining RF zero phase with quadrupole scan.
• Hardware/software controls.
• Undulator diagnostics

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DUVFEL Facility at BNL
1.6 cell gun with copper cathode
Coherent IR diagnostics
NISUS 10m undulator
Bunch compressor with post accel.
70 MeV
Bend
Bend
Undulators
Linac tanks
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5 MeV
Triplet
Triplet
70-200 MeV
RF zero phase screen
Dump
Dump
30 mJ, 100 fs TiSapphire laser
Photoinjector 1.6 cell BNL/SLAC/UCLA with copper
cathode 4 SLAC s-band 3 m linac sections Bunch
compressor between L2 and L3 Approximately 60 CCD
cameras on YAGCe for diagnostic screens.
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Key components of the DUVFEL
210 MeV S-Band Linac
10 m NISUS Wiggler
BNL GUN IV Photoinjector
Chicane Bunch Compressor
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Spectrum of HGHG and SASE at 266 nm
HGHG spectral brightness is 2x105 times larger
than SASE spectral brightness.
HGHG output is nearly Fourier transform limited.
Facility lased on first attempt. Electron and
optical beam properties were well-characterized
in advance.
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Time profile of UV laser pulse
Cross-correlaton difference frequency generation
experiment by B. Sheehy and H. Loos
Desired flat-top profile.
Phase matching angle of harmonic generation
crystals used to produce UV affects time and
spatial modulations.
Note Sub-ps streak camera is inadequate for
this measurement
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Laser masking of cathode image
Above Laser cathode image with mask removed
showing smooth profile. Below Resulting
electron beam showing hot spot of emission.
Above Laser cathode image of air force mask in
laser room. Below Resulting electron beam at
pop 2.
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• Can measure
• charge
• energy
• x and y centroid
• x and y beamsize
• px and py

Solenoid Scan Layout
65 cm
12 cm
33 cm
YAG screen
Mirror
Dipole trim
Telecentric lens magnif. 1
1.6 cell photoinjector
Solenoid
CCD Camera

• YAGCe screen very useful for low charge, high
  resolution profiles.
• Screen thickness, surface quality, multiple
  reflections, and camera lens depth-of-focus and
  resolution are all important issues. See SLAC
  GTF data.

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Emittance vs laser size
Emittance shows expected linear dependence on
spot size. Small asymmetry is always present.
FWHM 2.6 ps Charge 2.0 pC Gradient 85 MV/m RF
phase 30 degrees
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Determination of injector RF field imbalance
High
Size
Divergence
High
Low
Low
Error bars are measured data. Blue lines are from
HOMDYN simulation using RF fields from SUPERFISH
model and measured solenoid B-field. High line
from model with cathode field 10 higher than
full cell field. Low line from model with
cathode field 10 lower than full cell field.
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Emittance vs RF phase
Error bars are measured data points. Curve is
nonlinear least squares fit with ßrf and Fcu as
parameters ßrf 3.10 /- 0.49 and Fcu 4.73
/- 0.04 eV. The fit provides a second estimate
of the electron kinetic energy Ek 0.40 eV, in
close agreement with the estimate from the radial
dependence of emittance.
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Streak Camera

• Hammamatsu FESCA 500
• 765 fs FWHM measured resolution
• Reflective input optics (200-1600 nm)
• Wide response cathode (200-900 nm)
• Optical trigger (lt500 fs jitter)
• Designed for synchroscan use. Also good
  single-shot resolution.
• 6 time ranges 50 ps - 6 ns

50 ps window
Streak image
Very helpful for commissioning activies and for
timing several optical signals. Limited time
resolution below 1 ps.
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Streak camera time profiles of laser pulses
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signal (arb units)
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streak delay (picoseconds)
Amplified IR 796 nm FWHM 1.01 ps
single shot
UV 266 nm FWHM 2.40 ps singleshot
Oscillator 796 nm FWHM 765 fs
Time resolution depends on photon energy
energetic UV photons create photoelectrons with
energy spread that degrades time resolution
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RF zero-phase time profile
L3 phase 90, amp. set to remove chirp
L4 phase /-90, amp. set to add known chirp
L2 phase varies, amp. fixed
L1 phase 0, amp. fixed
Chicane varies from 0 cm lt R56 lt 10.5 cm
L1
L2
L3
L4
Pop 14 YAG screen
YAG images at pop 14
L3 corrects residual chirp, L4 is off
L4 phase -90 degrees
L4 phase 90 degrees
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Quad scan during RF zero phase
Movie of slice emittance measurement.
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Right side Circle is matched, normalized phase
space area at upstream location. Ellipse is phase
space area of slice at same location. Straight
lines are error bars of data points projected to
same location.
Left side Beam size squared vs quadrupole
strength. Each plot is a different time slice of
beam.
Joint experiment by BNL, SLAC, DESY (P. Piot).
Software is used to time-slice beam resolving
transverse dynamics on timescale of 10s of
femtoseconds.
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Slice emittance and Twiss parameters
z is parameter that characterizes mismatch
between target and each slice. z ½ (b0 g 2 a0
a b g0) a0, b0, g0 are target Twiss param. a,
b, g are slice Twiss param.
Beam Parameters 200 pC, 75 MeV, 400 fs slice
width
Note strongly divergent beam due to solenoid
overfocusing at tail, where current is low. Space
charge forces near cathode caused very different
betatron phase advances for different parts of
beam.
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Different slices require different solenoid
strength
Current projection
Head
Tail
Head
Tail
Head
Tail
Time
Head
Tail
Head
Tail
Head
Tail
Vertical dynamics Lattice is set to image end of
Tank 2 to RF-zero phasing YAG. Particles in tail
of beam are diverging, and in head
converging. Head has higher current and so
reaches waist at higher solenoid setting.
Increasing solenoid current
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Solenoid 98 A
Slice emittance vs solenoid strength. Charge
200 pC.
Data
Parmela
Projected Values (parmela in parentheses)
Solenoid 108 A
Solenoid 104 A
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Slice parameters vs charge
10 pC
50 pC
Low charge cases show low slice emittance and
little phase space twist.
200 pC
100 pC
High charge cases demonstrate both slice
emittance growth and phase space distortion.
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Control system
Automated measurements very important for
gathering large amounts of data and repeating
studies.
All sophisticated control is done in the MATLAB
environment on a PC. Physicists quickly
integrate hardware control with data
analysis. Low level control is EPICS on a SUN and
VME crates.
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Longitudinal structure
Analysis of RF zero phasing data can be
complicated by modulations in energy
plane. Apparent microbunching is in energy rather
than current. See recent publications of T.
Shaftan, BNL.
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Measuring e-beam time profile

• RF zero phasing
• Uncorrelated energy spread is 5 keV and coherent
  modulations can be 20 keV. Streak chirp must be
  much larger than this.
• Time and energy axes are difficult to
  disentangle.
• RF deflector cavity
• Produces correlation of time with transverse
  momentum rather than energy.
• Less sensitive to coherent energy modulations.
• Can obtain simultaneous time/energy/transverse
  beam properties when combined with dipole in
  other plane.
• Coherent Emission
• Follow method of Saldin, Schneidmiller, Yurkov in
  report DESY 04-126.
• Seed with IR laser and use short radiator, then
  SPIDER or FROG on coherent emission.

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Undulator and Electron Parameters
Courtesy of A. Doyuran, UCLA
Measured electron beam parameters
Undulator NISUS parameters
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Diagnostic System for the NISUS Wiggler
Courtesy of A. Doyuran, UCLA
NISUS Pop-in Design
Top View
FEL
e-
OTR Optical Transition Radiation
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FEL design of the matching section
Courtesy of T. Shaftan, BNL
MAD lattice for the matching into NISUS
NISUS
QA QB QA
th/tv12
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MINI
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YAG
Bend
Triplet 3
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Beam conditioning for the NISUS undulator
Courtesy of T. Shaftan, BNL
Measured beam sizes along the undulator
represent the disturbed b-function due to
unmatched initial Twiss parameters. Determine
Twiss parameters at the entrance of the undulator
and emittances. Transport lattice functions
back to the matching section entrance and retune
the optics for better matching.
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Beam-based trajectory alignment
Courtesy of T. Shaftan, BNL
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First beam trajectory studies demonstrated the
presence of the field errors in the
undulator. The BBA method uses
trajectory sensitivity to the energy change.
After measuring many trajectories one can
determine the location and magnitude of field
errors. Use trim coils and 4-wire system to
correct the field errors.
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Trajectory deviation with respect to the
energy (red ? 87, blue ? 110, green? 130 MeV)
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Gain length LG0.9 m
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Concluding Remarks

• Adequate diagnostics are critical for successful
  FEL commissioning. Inevitable construction
  errors are quantified and corrected.
• Experimental methods exist to quantify almost all
  aspects of electron and optical performance.
  Important to plan for diagnostic measurements
  during design phase to optimize lattice and
  measurement locations.
• Control system details very important for easy
  integration of physics models and automated beam
  studies.