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We demonstrate the use of a flexible digital servo system for the optical stabilization of both the repetition rate and carrier-envelope offset frequency of a laser frequency comb. The servo system is based entirely on a low-cost field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-27 Jonah Shaw , Connor Fredrick , Scott Diddams

The low-level RF (LLRF) systems for linear accelerating structures are typically based on heterodyne architectures. The linear accelerators normally have many RF stations and multiple RF inputs and outputs for each station, so the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 C. Liu , E. Snively , R. Herbst , K. Kim , E. A. Nanni

The LIGHT (Linac for Image-Guided Hadron Therapy) project was initiated to develop a modular proton accelerator delivering beam with energies up to 230 MeV for cancer therapy. The machine consists of three different kinds of accelerating…

In FEL (Free-Electron Laser) accelerators, LLRF (Low-Level Radiofrequency) systems usually deploy feedback or feedforward algorithms requiring precise microwave measurement. The slow drift of the clock allocation network of LLRF…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 J. F. Zhu , H. L. Ding , H. K. Li , J. W. Han , X. W. Dai , Z. C. Chen , J. Y. Yang , W. Q. Zhang

The rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) is part of China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). The RCS provides 1.6GeV protons with a repetition rate of 25Hz. The RF system in RCS is mainly composed of a ferrite loaded RF cavity, a high power…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Li Xiao , Sun Hong , Long Wei , Zhao Fa-Cheng , Zhang Chun-Lin

The J-PARC linac was consist of 324MHz low-{\beta} section and 972MHz high-{\beta} section. There is a total of 48 stations. And each station was equipped with an independent LLRF (Low-Level Radio Frequency) system to realize an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 S. Li , K. Futatsukawa , Y. Fukui , Z. Fang , S. Shinozaki , Y. Sato , S. Mizobata

SPARC_LAB is a high-brightness electron photoinjector dedicated to FEL radiation production and research on novel acceleration techniques. It has been in operation at LNF since 2005. It is composed of a newly designed brazeless 1.6-cell…

A clock synchronizing circuit for repeaterless low swing interconnects is presented in this paper. The circuit uses a delay locked loop (DLL) to generate multiple phases of the clock, of which the one closest to the center of the eye is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Naveen Kadayinti , Maryam Shojaei Baghini , Dinesh K. Sharma

The low-level RF (LLRF) systems for S-band linear accelerating structures are typically implemented with heterodyne base architectures. We have developed and characterized the next generation LLRF (NG-LLRF) based on the RF system-on-chip…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Chao Liu , Ankur Dhar , Emma Snively , Mohamed Othman , Ryan Herbst , Emilio A. Nanni

A new generation of storage ring-based light source, called diffraction-limited storage ring (DLSR), with emittance approaching the diffraction limit for multi-keV photons by means of multi-bend achromat lattice, has attracted worldwide and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Gang Xu , Yi Jiao , Yue-Mei Peng

This contribution focuses on phase-noise added during frequency conversion in low-level radio frequency (LLRF) control systems. The stability of beams' parameters in linear accelerators depends on the stability of amplitude and phase of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 Igor Rutkowski , Krzysztof Czuba

Within the framework of the European, project MYRTE (MYRRHA Research and Transmutation Endeavour) of the H2020 program, a 4-Rods RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole) has been designed at 176.1 MHz RFQ for accelerating up to 4 mA protons in CW…

Transverse Deflecting Cavities (TDCs) are generally adopted for electron beam diagnosis. Three sets of S-band and two sets of X-band TDCs are planned at Shenzhen Superconducting Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser (S3FEL) to accurately measure…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jinfu Zhu , Hongli Ding , Haokui Li , Jiahang Shao , Yong Yu , Zongbin Li , Jiayue Yang , Zhichao Chen , Guorong Wu , Weiqing Zhang

This paper presents a frequency synthesis that achieves exceptional stability by transferring optical signals to the radio frequency (RF) domain at 100 MHz. We describe and characterize two synthesis chains composed of a cryogenic silicon…

We design and implement a low-impedance, high-current radio-frequency (RF) circuit, enabling fast coherent coupling between magnetic levels in cold alkali atomic samples. It is based on a compact shape-optimized coil that maximizes the RF…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 F. Scazza , G. Del Pace , L. Pieri , R. Concas , W. J. Kwon , G. Roati

The electronics of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, the 10-tonne dark matter detector to be installed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), consists of low-noise dual-gain amplifiers and a 100-MHz, 14-bit data acquisition…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-13 Dev Ashish Khaitan

The upgrade of ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter (LAr) Phase-1 trigger requires high-speed, low-latency data transmission to read out the Lar Trigger Digitizer Board (LTDB). A dual-channel transmitter ASIC LOCx2 have been designed and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-04 Zhi-yue Wang , Tian-kuan Liu , Qi-jie Tang , Yi Feng , Jian Wang

We report on the design, implementation and characterization of fully digital control loops for laser frequency stabilization, differential phase-locking and performance optimization of the optical metrology system on-board the LISA…

The Source Development Lab (SDL) at BNL consists of a 230 MeV electron linac and a 10 m long wiggler for short wavelength Free Electronic Laser (FEL) development. The original control system [1] was based on the one in use at the National…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Feng , W. S. Graves , Y. N. Tang

We present the first experimental confirmation of the so-called "self-phaselocked delay interferometry". This laser frequency stabilization technique consists basically in comparing the prompt laser signal with a delayed version of itself…