U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Education in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology
Course Materials - MIT - June 2010
Measurement and Diagnostics of Short Bunches in Accelerators
course given by John Byrd, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Introduction: Measurement and Diagnostics of Short Bunches in Accelerators
- Radiation by Charged Particles: a Review
- Bunch Length Measurement with RF and Microwave Signals
- THz Detectors
- Interferometers and Spectrometers
- A Brief Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Materials, Mode-Locked Oscillators, and Ultrashort Laser Pulses
- Electro-Optic Sampling of Coherent Radiation
- Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (FROG)
- Cross-Correlation of Laser and Synchrotron Light for Longitudinal Bunch Measurements
- Bunch Compressors
- Short Bunch Instabilities
- Optical and X-Ray Streak Cameras for Pulse Length Measurement