Optical diagnostics, providing images of accelerated particle beams using radiation emitted by particles impinging a radiator, typically a fluorescent screen, has been extensively used, especially on electron linacs, since the 1970’s. Higher intensity beams available in the last decade allow extending the use of beam imaging techniques to perform precise measurements of important beam parameters such as emittance, energy, and energy spread using optical transition radiation OTR . OTR-based diagnostics systems are extensively used on the superconducting TESLA Test Facility TTF linac driving the vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser VUV-FEL at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron facility. Up to 30 optical diagnostic stations have been installed at various positions along the 250-m-long linac, each equipped with a high-performance digital camera. This paper describes the new approach to the design of the hardware and software setups required by the complex topology of such a distributed camera system
Catani, L., Cianchi, A., Di Pirro, G., Honkavaara, K. (2005). A large distributed digital camera system for accelerator beam diagnostics. REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 76, 073303 [10.1063/1.1946667].
A large distributed digital camera system for accelerator beam diagnostics
CIANCHI, ALESSANDRO;
2005-01-01
Abstract
Optical diagnostics, providing images of accelerated particle beams using radiation emitted by particles impinging a radiator, typically a fluorescent screen, has been extensively used, especially on electron linacs, since the 1970’s. Higher intensity beams available in the last decade allow extending the use of beam imaging techniques to perform precise measurements of important beam parameters such as emittance, energy, and energy spread using optical transition radiation OTR . OTR-based diagnostics systems are extensively used on the superconducting TESLA Test Facility TTF linac driving the vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser VUV-FEL at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron facility. Up to 30 optical diagnostic stations have been installed at various positions along the 250-m-long linac, each equipped with a high-performance digital camera. This paper describes the new approach to the design of the hardware and software setups required by the complex topology of such a distributed camera systemQuesto articolo è pubblicato sotto una Licenza Licenza Creative Commons
