Increasing the Single-Bunch Instability Threshold by Bunch Splitting Due to RF Phase Modulation

RF phase modulation at twice the synchrotron frequency can be used to split a stored electron bunch into two or more bunchlets orbiting each other. We report on time-resolved measurements at the KArlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA), where this bunch splitting was used to increase the threshold current of the microbunching instability, happening in the short-bunch operation mode. Switching the modulation on and off, reproducibly influences the sawtooth behaviour of the emitted coherent synchrotron radiation

Application of KALYPSO as a diagnostic tool for beam and spectral analysis

KALYPSO is a novel detector capable of operating at frame rates up to 12 MHz developed and tested at the institute of data processing and electronics (IPE) and employed at Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA) which is part of the Test Facility and Synchrotron Radiation Source KIT. This detector consists of silicon, InGaAs, PbS, or PbSe line array sensor with spectral sensitivity from 350 nm to 5000 nm. The unprecedented frame rate of this detector is achieved by a custom-designed ASIC readout chip. The FPGA-readout architecture enables continuous data acquisition and real-time data processing. Such a detector has various applications in the fields of beam diagnostics and spectral analysis. KALYPSO is currently employed at various synchrotron facilities for electro-optical spectral decoding (EOSD) to study the longitudinal profile of the electron beam, to study the energy spread of the electron beam, tuning of free-electron lasers (FELs), and also in characterizing laser spectra. This contribution will present an overview of the results from the mentioned applications

Advanced Diagnostic Detectors for Rogue Phenomena, Single-Shot Applications

The detection of rapid dynamics in diverse physical systems is traditionally very difficult and strongly dominatedby several noise contributions. Laser mode-locking, electron bunches in accelerators, and optical-triggered phasesin materials are events that carry important information about the system from which they emerge. By detecting single-shot spectra with high repetition rates over long-time scales, new possibilities and applications to diagnose,control and tailor the spectral dynamics of lasers and electron beams in synchrotron and free-electron laser(FEL) accelerators open up. This contribution focuses on the latest developments of real-time, single-shot, high-repetition-rate detectors and data acquisition systems, with a special focus on emerging technologies and newpossibilities in the diagnostics of rogue optical signals