Benchmarking of electro-optic monitors for femtosecond electron bunches

The longitudinal profiles of ultrashort relativistic electron bunches at the soft x-ray free-electron laser FLASH have been investigated using two single-shot detection schemes: an electro-optic (EO) detector measuring the Coulomb field of the bunch and a radio-frequency structure transforming the charge distribution into a transverse streak. A comparison permits an absolute calibration of the EO technique. EO signals as short as 60 fs (rms) have been observed, which is a new record in the EO detection of single electron bunches and close to the limit given by the EO material properties.     

Electro-optic technique with improved time resolution for real-time, nondestructive, single-shot measurements of femtosecond electron bunch profiles

Electro-optic detection of the Coulomb field of a relativistic electron bunch combined with single-shot cross correlation of optical pulses is used to enable single-shot measurements of the shape and length of femtosecond electron bunches. This method overcomes a fundamental time-resolution limit of previous single-shot electro-optic measurements, which arises from the inseparability of time and frequency properties of the probing optical pulse. Using this new technique we have made real-time measurements of a 50 MeV electron bunch, observing the profile of 650 fs FWHM ( approximately 275 fs rms) long bunches.     

Slice emittance measurement for photocathode RF gun with solenoid scanning and RF deflecting cavity

The radiation of high-gain short-wavelength free-electron laser depends on the slice transverse emittance of the electron bunch. This essay introduces the method of slice emittance measurement, and shows the brief setup of this experiment using the solenoid scanning and RF deflecting cavity at Tsinghua University. The preliminary experimental results show that the slice rms emittance of the electron bunch generated by photocathode RF gun has considerable variations along the bunch and is typically less than 0.55 mm mrad for the laser rms radius of 0.4 mm.

     

皮秒级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱

介绍了一种利用光电摄谱法和条纹管相结合测量ps级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱的方法。论述了条纹相机工作原理和平面衍射光栅的分光原理,分析指出利用介绍的装置,可以实现波长300 nm ～1 600 nm、脉宽＞2 ps超快高能脉冲激光的光谱测量。采用1 054 nm超快高能脉冲激光器,实验得到了条纹像,对条纹像进行数据处理后得到测量光谱曲线,通过能量标定后,得到了超快高能脉冲激光器实际光谱曲线,验证了ps级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱方法。讨论了系统中耦合透镜组对光谱测量和光纤色散角对条纹图像的影响,论述了ps级时间分辨超快高能脉冲激光光谱的作用。随着条纹管制造技术的飞速发展,该方法可用于fs级激光光谱的测量。     

Silex-I飞秒激光装置X射线探测系统时间特性北大核心CSCD

在Silex-Ⅰ飞秒激光装置上,利用32fs、800nm的激光辐照平面金靶,产生小于1ps的X射线脉冲,作为δ脉冲X射线源,研究XRD探测器的时间响应特性,并且探索X射线条纹相机时间分辨和分幅相机曝光时间的X射线标定方法。实验给出了XRD探测器的时间响应特性。解决了条纹相机和分幅相机触发晃动问题,给出了条纹相机时间分辨和分幅相机曝光时间的X射线标定方法,初步给出条纹相机时间分辨和分幅相机曝光时间。     

Generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses via laser–electron beam interaction

The generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses will have important scientific applications by enabling the direct measurement of atomic motion and structural dynamics in condensed matter on the fundamental time scale of a vibrational period. Interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with relativistic electron beams is an effective approach to generating femtosecond pulses of X-rays. In this paper we present recent results from proof-of-principle experiments in which 300 fs pulses are generated from a synchrotron storage ring by using an ultrashort optical pulse to create femtosecond time structure on the stored electron bunch. A previously demonstrated approach for generating femtosecond X-rays via Thomson scattering between terawatt laser pulses and relativistic electrons is reviewed and compared with storage-ring based schemes.     

高重复频率触发模式皮秒扫描相机

讨论了高重复频率扫描电路的研制,利用此扫描电路研制了扫描相机,使用掺钛兰宝石激光器进行了时间分辨率的标定,使用半导体激光器作为光源进行了脉冲宽度的测试.最高工作频率为：1 MHz,时间分辨率为：1.8 ps.     

A.第十九届国际高速摄影和光子学会议概况

本文对第19届国际高速摄影与光子学会议做了简介,主要谈到了光机式相机、高速视频技术、全息和干涉计量。     

B. 变像管诊断技术

本文评述了变像管诊断技术的国内外最新发展,详细地分析介绍了本届会议上出现的几种新管型,并涉及到某些应用。     

Femtosecond laser ablation of polypropylene for breathable film

A polypropylene (PP) film was ablated using a femtosecond laser with a center wavelength of 785 nm, a pulse width of 184 fs and a repetition rate of 1 kHz. Increments of both the pulse energy and the shot number of pulses lead to co-occurrence of photochemical and thermal effect, demonstrated by the spatial expansion of rim on the surface of PP. The shapes of the laser-ablated PP films were imaged by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and measured by a 3D optical measurement system (NanoFocus). And, the gas and water vapor transmission rate, mechanical properties of PP film micropatterned by fs laser pulses was characterized. Our results demonstrate that a femtosecond pulsed laser is an efficient tool for breathable packaging films in modifying the flow of air and gas, where the micropatterns are specifically tailored in size, location and number of which is easily controlled by laser processing conditions.     

Measurement of the Gaponov-Miller force produced in vacuum by tightly focused intense femtosecond laser radiation

A method for measuring the Gaponov-Miller force (GMF) is demonstrated based on the deflection of a picosecond photoelectron beam exposed to tightly focused intense femtosecond laser radiation. It is shown experimentally that the action of this force produced by femtosecond laser pulses linearly depends on their intensity. The method can be used to verify the correctness of measuring the duration of an ultrashort electron bunch based on the GMF.     

Simulation study of electron injection into plasma wake fields by colliding laser pulses using OOPIC

An electron injector concept for a laser-plasma accelerator has been developed which relies on the use of counter propagating ultrashort laser pulses. In this paper, we use OOPIC the fully self-consistent, twodimensional, particle-in-cell code to make a parameter study to determine the bunches that can be obtained through collisions of two collinear laser pulses in uniform plasma. A series of simulations show that one can obtain a short (<10fs) bunch with its charge of about 15pC, and energy spread of about 15%. We also discussed the variation of the transverse spot size of the electron bunch and found the bunch would undergo the betatron oscillations.     

First staging of two laser accelerators

Staging of two laser-driven, relativistic electron accelerators has been demonstrated for the first time in a proof-of-principle experiment, whereby two distinct and serial laser accelerators acted on an electron beam in a coherently cumulative manner. Output from a CO2 laser was split into two beams to drive two inverse free electron lasers (IFEL) separated by 2.3 m. The first IFEL served to bunch the electrons into approximately 3 fs microbunches, which were rephased with the laser wave in the second IFEL. This represents a crucial step towards the development of practical laser-driven electron accelerators.     

光电子能量角度分布和空间电荷效应对变像管条纹相机的影响

基于飞秒条纹相机系统和飞秒电子衍射系统设计需求,通过蒙特卡罗方法模拟研究了在阴栅加速区光电子能量、角度分布和空间电荷效应对光电子时间弥散和能量弥散的影响。确定了紫外和软X射线波段入射光电阴极时,光电子六种初始能量分布的时间弥散精确值。分析了光电子发射电流密度、加速电场和时间弥散的关系。发现了电子脉冲在加速区轴向速度的线性啁啾、能量弥散变化和在自由区不相同。     

利用三色组合脉冲激光获得孤立阿秒脉冲发射

孤立阿秒脉冲因可以跟踪和控制原子及分子内电子的运动过程而备受关注.本文从理论上开展了氦原子在3束飞秒脉冲激光组合场辐照下产生的高次谐波和阿秒脉冲辐射的研究.组合激光场由16 fs/1600 nm,15 fs/1100 nm和5.3 fs/800 nm的钛宝石脉冲构成.与前两束脉冲合成的双色场产生谐波谱相比,附加钛宝石脉冲的三色场产生的高次谐波发射谱呈现出高转换效率及宽带超连续特性,超连续谱范围覆盖从230—690次谐波,傅里叶变换后实现了128 as高强度孤立短脉冲的产生.该结果归因于合成的三色场呈现出高功率及少周期的中红外飞秒脉冲激光特性,可以有效控制原子电离以及复合发生在中红外飞秒脉冲的一个有效光学周期内.     

声光偏转器扫描飞秒激光的时间色散补偿

研究了声光偏转器(AOD)扫描飞秒激光的时间色散效应及补偿方案.在800nm波长处，单个AOD引入的群延时色散(GDD)可达～9300fs².在深入分析AOD和棱镜角色散原理的基础上，提出了用色散棱镜预补偿AOD对飞秒脉冲的时间色散，并进行了实验证实.在AOD中心频率处(70MHz)，将398fs的脉冲压缩到122fs，且整个带宽范围内(50MHz—90MHz)脉宽变化范围为120fs—180fs.这表明该方案用于AOD扫描飞秒激光时进行时间色散补偿是非常有效的. 关键词： 飞秒激光 声光偏转器 时间色散 脉冲压缩     

光阴极微波电子枪中激光脉冲的时间抖动测量

 研究了光阴极微波电子枪输出电荷量与驱动激光相对于微波入射相位的关系。通过对光阴极材料在光电子发射时的肖特基效应和电子束团在电子枪内的纵向加速过程分析模拟，得到了电子枪输出电荷量与激光入射相位的一段线性关系，设计了利用此关系测量驱动激光脉冲相对于微波相位的时间抖动的实验方案。结果表明，这种测量方法可以分辨1.15fs的时间抖动，误差为0.23fs。     

Clocking femtosecond X rays

Linear-accelerator-based sources will revolutionize ultrafast x-ray science due to their unprecedented brightness and short pulse duration. However, time-resolved studies at the resolution of the x-ray pulse duration are hampered by the inability to precisely synchronize an external laser to the accelerator. At the Sub-Picosecond Pulse Source at the Stanford Linear-Accelerator Center we solved this problem by measuring the arrival time of each high energy electron bunch with electro-optic sampling. This measurement indirectly determined the arrival time of each x-ray pulse relative to an external pump laser pulse with a time resolution of better than 60 fs rms.     

合肥光源基于同步光的测量与研究

介绍了合肥光源同步光测量系统, 包括条纹相机系统、快速光电测量束团长度系统、束团横向截面测量系统和光位置测量系统. 利用条纹相机系统和快速光电测量束团长度系统进行了束团长度测量和束团伸长效应的研究. 利用束流截面测量系统进行了六极铁对横向不稳定性抑制效果和横向反馈系统反馈效果的测量研究. 光位置测量系统采用丝型光位置检测器和自行研制了对数处理器, 用于测量光源点的束流位置和角度.