Speaker
Spencer Jolly
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, Hamburg University)
Description
Within the LAOLA Collaboration, the University of Hamburg and DESY work closely together to combine university research in the field of laser-plasma acceleration with the expertise of a large and well-established accelerator facility. We present in this talk a summary of hardware, software, and operation based changes to the 200 TW ANGUS laser system to increase ease of operation and stability. After a brief introduction of the laser, we concentrate on the components that rely heavily on the DESY in-house control system architecture and software, and show recent statistics for both laser operation and long-term stability. These improvements to the laser system will greatly help the operation of LUX and REGAE, the two dedicated experiments in Hamburg which study laser-plasma acceleration.
Primary author
Spencer Jolly
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, Hamburg University)
Co-authors
Andreas Maier
(CFEL/UHH)
Dominik Trosien
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, Hamburg University)
Matthias Schnepp
(University of Hamburg)
Vincent Leroux
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, Hamburg University)
