Towards femtosecond-level intrinsic laser synchronization at fourth generation light sources
Towards femtosecond-level intrinsic laser synchronization at fourth generation light sources
Chen, M.; Kovalev, S.; Awari, N.; Wang, Z.; Germanskiy, S.; Green, B.; Deinert, J.-C.; Gensch, M.
In this Letter, the proof of principle for a scheme providing intrinsic femtosecond-level synchronization between an external laser system and fourth generation light sources is presented. The scheme is applicable at any accelerator-based light source that is based on the generation of coherent radiation from ultrashort electron bunches such as superradiant terahertz (THz) facilities or X-FELs. It makes use of a superradiant THz pulse generated by the accelerator as an intrinsically synchronized gate signal for electro-optical slicing. We demonstrate that the scheme enables a reduction of the timing instability by more than 2 orders of magnitude. This demonstration experiment thereby proves that intrinsically synchronized time-resolved experiments utilizing laser and accelerator-based radiation pulses on few tens of femtosecond (fs) to few fs timescales are feasible.
Keywords: Synchronization; THz slicing; Spectral Decoding
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