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.
@article{arxiv.1205.0800,
title = {Single-shot electro-optic sampling of coherent transition radiation at the A0 Photoinjector},
author = {T. J. Maxwell and J. Ruan and P. Piot and R. Thurman-Keup},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0800},
year = {2012}
}