Future collider applications and present high-gradient laser plasma wakefield
accelerators operating with picosecond bunch durations place a higher demand on
the time resolution of bunch distribution diagnostics. This demand has led to
significant advancements in the field of electro-optic sampling over the past
ten years. These methods allow the probing of diagnostic light such as coherent
transition radiation or the bunch wakefields with sub-picosecond time
resolution. Potential applications in shot-to-shot, non-interceptive
diagnostics continue to be pursued for live beam monitoring of collider and
pump-probe experiments. Related to our developing work with electro-optic
imaging, we present results on single-shot electro-optic sampling of the
coherent transition radiation from bunches generated at the A0 photoinjector.Comment: 3 p