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Entry   Electrons-Photons phase stability measurement, posted by Ronic Chiche at ThomX igloo about lasers and optics | detectors and electronics img1(1).jpg
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Message ID: 416     Entry time: Wed Mar 5 15:08:38 2025     In reply to: 415
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: info 
 Category: lasers and optics | detectors and electronics 
 Location: ThomX igloo 
 Title: Electrons-Photons phase stability measurement 

the phase between the 500Mhz ring RF oscillator and the electrons is measured on a BPM and is very stable after 2-3ms (<< 6ps, typically) !

in the same time, we can use the residual phase beating after our 500MHz mixer to estimate the phase noise coming from the laser part.
the rms noise of this signal is around 60mV for 1.25V peak (2.5 pk-pk) signal => ~ 50mrad rms

dt = dphi / 2pi * 2ns ~ 15 ps which is the noise measured between electrons and photons at the IP !!!

we clearly see that this rms noise level is correlated with the 20Hz oscillation observed on the FPC feedback signals.

BUT even when this rms phase noise varies, we DO NOT see any effect on the X-ray production at this time,
which means this is not yet a limiting factor.
this observation is confirmed by the X-ray production flux calculation for which the time jitter is "added" to the electron beam size parameter which seems to be dominant.

Ronic Chiche wrote:

we installed a measurement at the IP with the BPM for ion cleaning for electrons and we used a fast photodiode at the output of the FP-cavity and measured with a fast oscilloscope the phase jitter between the 2 signals.
in red, the BPM signal
in blue, the photodiode signal.

on the right of the picture, this is the trend of the phase difference measurement.
in yellow, this is the histogram of this phase difference.

one measured 35ps of FWHM which is equivalent to 15ps rms for a Gaussian distribution.

 

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