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Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 903 (2018) 140–146
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A low-power laserwire profile monitor for H− beams: Design and
experimental results
T. Hofmann a,b, *, G.E. Boorman a , A. Bosco a , S.M. Gibson a , F. Roncarolo b
a
b
John Adams Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW200 EX, United Kingdom
Beam Instrumentation Group, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
ARTICLE
Keywords:
Laserwire
Linac
Profile
H−
Diamond
Fibre optics
INFO
ABSTRACT
An instrument to non-destructively measure the transverse profile of an H− beam has been developed and tested at
CERN’s new LINAC4. The vertical profile of the H− beam has been measured, at beam commissioning energies of
50, 80 and 107 MeV. The instrument consists of a laser-source which is coupled to an optical fibre, delivering laser
pulses with hundreds Watts of peak power to the accelerator tunnel, where the laser beam is focused horizontally
onto the H− beam. Due to photo-detachment, electrons are liberated from the ions and can be deflected by a weak
dipole field onto a diamond detector. The beam profile is obtained by scanning the laser beam vertically across
the H− beam and recording for each position the number of arriving electrons. The design, implementation and
characterisation of the novel instrument shall be described and the measured beam profiles compared to profiles
obtained with SEM-grids and wirescanners.
1. Introduction
To measure beam profiles at ion beam accelerators, interceptive
methods such as wirescanners or secondary electron emission (SEM)
grids are used predominantly [1]. These techniques have been used for
decades and offer with a simple design reliable profile measurements.
Crossing the particle beam with a solid wire however, causes challenges
due to heating such that a certain risk of breakage and subsequent
vacuum contamination cannot be avoided. In addition, the induced
scattering on the beam causes losses and emittance blow-up, so that
the instrument degrades the beam quality.
Due to these arguments non-destructive profile monitors, which
cross the ion beam with a laser beam instead of a solid wire are
increasingly prevalent. The principle of the laserwire is similar to a
wirescanner but without the risk of vacuum contamination and noticeable effect on the ion beam and it can be used over a wide range of beam
energies (MeV...Multi-GeV). An example of a sophisticated laser-based
system can be found at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee [2]. In this system a free-space laser beam with MW peak
power is split up to supply 9 interaction stations with the H− beam where
the detached electrons are collected by Faraday cups.
The setup which is presented in this paper is based on the basic
principle as shown in Fig. 1. The low-power laser beam is delivered
by an optical fibre and the electrons are sensed with a high sensitive
*
diamond detector, such that the instruments precision and reliability is
enhanced.
The laser beam is focused to a waist size approximately 10 times
smaller than the H− beam at the interaction point. Due to the photodetachment mechanism,
H− + 𝛾 → H0 + 𝑒−
(1)
electrons can be stripped from the H− ions. The probability for each ion
crossing the laser beam to be stripped is
′
P𝑃 𝐷 = 1 − e−𝜎𝑃 𝐷 (𝜆𝐿 )⋅𝐹𝐿 ⋅𝑡
(2)
where 𝜎𝑃 𝐷 is the cross-section [3] at a laser wavelength 𝜆𝐿 , 𝐹𝐿 the
photon flux and 𝑡 the time of flight of the particle across the laser
beam [4]. The process cross-section 𝜎𝑃 𝐷 is influenced by the relativistic
Doppler shift as described in [5]. Minor changes have been summarised
in Table 1, together with the laser wavelength 𝜆′𝐿 in the rest-frame of
the H− beam for the relevant beam energies.
The small portion of liberated electrons are deflected by a weak
dipole field towards an integrating detector while the main H− beam
experiences just a minor deflection (mrad). Scanning the laser beam
vertically across the H− beam, the beam profile can be reconstructed
from the corresponding number of arriving electrons at the detector.
Corresponding author at: John Adams Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW200 EX, United Kingdom.
E-mail address: thomas.hofmann@cern.ch (T. Hofmann).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.06.035
Received 16 March 2018; Received in revised form 28 May 2018; Accepted 11 June 2018
Available online 21 June 2018
0168-9002/© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Fig. 1. Top view of the concept for laser-based vertical profile measurements.
A laser beam is focused onto the H- beam. The detached electrons are steered
by a weak dipole field onto a diamond detector.
Fig. 2. Top view of optics setup for laser injection into the beampipe and
characterisation of the laser beam.
Table 1
Change of photo-detachment cross-section due to relativistic Doppler-effect.
𝐸𝑘𝑖𝑛 [MeV]
𝜆′𝐿 [nm]
𝜎𝑃 𝐷 [10−17 cm2 ]
0
50
80
107
1064
1010
980
957
3.68
3.86
3.94
3.98
The laser beam exits the transport fibre and is subsequently collimated
and enlarged to a 2𝜎 beam radius of approx. 3.8 mm. The expanded laser
beam is sampled via an optical flat window, AR-coated on only one side,
which creates a weak Fresnel reflection directed towards the photodiode
for online monitoring of the laser pulse-shape. After passing a lens
(𝑓 = 600 mm), the laser beam enters the vacuum chamber, interacts
at its waist with the H− beam and exits the vacuum chamber. Hereafter
it is absorbed by an integrating energy metre to monitor online the laser
pulse energy for an absolute calibration.
To perform a vertical scan of the laser beam via the H− beam, the
fibre coupled beam delivery optics is mounted on a remote controlled
stage. An additional stage in the horizontal plane is used to position the
laser waist precisely at the centre of the beampipe. In normal operation,
the laser beam enters the vacuum chamber through the viewport,
however, when the stage is at its lowest position, the beam is deflected
to enable self-diagnostics. With a CCD camera mounted on a horizontal
stage, the transverse shape of the laser-waist can be characterised and
the beam quality (𝑀 2 ) of the laser beam can be determined.
Table 2
Characteristics of laser-source.
Parameter
Permissible values
Operational values
Wavelength
Peak power
Pulse length
Pulse frequency
Linewidth
𝑀2
1064 nm
max. 40 kW
1 ns...300 ns
35 kHz...500 kHz
1 nm...5 nm
1.3
1064 nm
100 W
100 ns
86 kHz
1 nm...5 nm
𝑀𝑦2 = 1.27
2. Instrument design and implementation
2.1. System design
2.1.2. Electron deflection
To achieve a simple and cost-effective solution for deflecting the
electrons, it was decided to modify a LINAC4 type steerer magnet. By
removing the magnet coil on the T-chamber side, the steerer acts as a
C-shaped magnet with the remaining coil powered to create the B-field
(see Fig. 1). A photograph of the full setup installed at the diagnostic
testbench at LINAC4 can be seen in Fig. 3.
The trajectory of the electrons in the magnetic field were simulated
to ensure that they do not collide with the vacuum chamber wall and
furthermore to determine the spot size of the electrons in the plane of
the diamond detector.
The following assumes that the field strength scales linear with the
coil current thus the simulation will be described just for the 50 MeV
H− beam scenario. In this case the kinetic energy of each electron is 27
keV, as can be derived from the 50 MeV kinetic energy of the H− ions
and the proton to electron mass ratio. These low energy electrons can
be deflected by 90◦ with an integrated field of 0.9 mTm.
A magnetic field-map was created to predict the electron trajectories
in the B-field, which can be seen in Fig. 4. Starting from LINAC4 beam
dynamics simulation of the H− distribution in the plane of the laser
interaction (𝑥 = 0 mm; 𝑧 = −83 mm), the trajectories of the stripped
electrons to the detector plane within the magnetic vector-field were
calculated. In addition to the Lorentz force, space-charge effects of the
The instrument design focused on reducing complexity compared
to preceding laserwire instruments and thus creating a reliable device
which is nevertheless able to measure the beam characteristics with high
precision. The key element of this approach is a comparably low power
laser system with fibre-based transmission to the accelerator which is
described in the following.
2.1.1. Laser system
To protect the sensitive optical elements in the laser source, a laser
room has been built in the klystron gallery above the accelerator tunnel
to host the laser source. The laser is configured as Master Oscillator
Power Amplifier (MOPA) with a laser diode based optical seed pulse
oscillator followed by a dual-stage fibre amplifier system, pumped by
multi-mode laser diodes. Key laser parameters are listed in Table 2.
The 75 m long transport line of the laser beam to the beampipe
was accomplished with a Large Mode Area (LMA) optical fibre [6],
equipped with 330 μm long end-caps to avoid damage induced by the
high power densities occurring at the fibre end-facets. The transmission
has been characterised for laser pulses with peak power up to 2.2 kW
and was found to be above 73% (including fibre coupling losses), slightly
decreasing towards higher laser powers [7].
The optics setup situated after fibre transmission to the accelerator
tunnel (the laser injector in Fig. 8) is shown schematically in Fig. 2.
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Fig. 3. Photo of vacuum-chamber for laser interaction with associated steerer
magnet to deflect electrons towards the diamond detector.
Fig. 5. sCVD diamond detector [8] mounted on a vertical actuator; Dimensions
(±3 𝜎) of an arriving electron beamlet marked as ellipse.
Fig. 6. Signal creation and readout of the diamond detector.
with the laserwire. Due to its small dimensions the low capacitance
permits detections of the 100 ns long pulses without low-pass distortion.
Fig. 5 shows the diamond detector mounted in the beampipe on a
vertical actuator. The front electrode of the detector is bonded to ground
potential all around its perimeter to avoid electro-magnetic disturbance
from the main H− beam passing just 72 mm away from the detector.
It consists of 3 thin layers (250 nm gold, 120 nm platinum and 100
nm titanium) which ensure that even for the lowest electron energy (27
keV) just 3.2 keV is lost in the front electrode. The ellipse at the detector
surface represents the ±3 𝜎 dimensions of a typical electron beamlet as
reference.
In Fig. 6 the signal chain up to the analogue to digital converter
(ADC) is illustrated. A laser pulse with 100 μJ energy hitting the H− beam
centrally will detach approx. 𝑁𝑒− = 5 ⋅ 105 electrons from the hydrogen
ions. This corresponds to a probability of 4 ⋅ 10−5 for an H− ion to
interact with the laser beam. After initial losses in the front electrode, the
remaining kinetic energy of each electron is deposited in the diamond
material creating a carrier–hole pair for each 𝐸𝐺𝑒𝑛 = 13 eV. The
cumulative charge of
Fig. 4. Magnetic field map (in Tesla) and electron trajectories (black) from the
laser interaction point to the diamond detector. White areas are outside of the
vacuum chamber.
main H− beam and synchrotron radiation were taken into account but
had no significant effects on the path of the electrons.
The black curve in Fig. 4 represents the ± 3 𝜎 envelope of the
electron trajectory when powering the magnet coil with a current of
4.7 A. Shielding at 𝑧 = −60 mm surrounds the beampipe between laser
interaction point (IP) and steerer magnet. This shielding was designed
to shape the magnetic field lines such that the electrons do not strike the
wall of the beam pipe before reaching the electron monitor. The detector
plane 𝑥 = 72 mm was chosen, as this is the focal point generated by
the weak focusing of the dipole. In this plane the simulation of the
electron beamlet size for one laser position yielded 𝜎𝑧 = 230 ± 30 μm and
𝜎𝑦 = 110 ± 15 μm. It has to be mentioned, that the magnetic vector-field
of the steerer magnet was not verified by a scan with a Hall-probe due
to time constraints. As result a systematic uncertainty of the electron
path is present in this simulation.
The effect of the dipole field on the main H− beam is an angular kick
in the horizontal plane of 1.6 mrad, which is insignificant in this setup
as the beam is dumped shortly afterwards (see Fig. 8).
𝑄𝑐𝑢𝑚 =
𝑒𝑁𝑒− ⋅ (𝐸𝑘𝑖𝑛 − 𝐸𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠 )
= 1.5 ⋅ 10−10 C
𝐸𝐺𝑒𝑛
(3)
is read out applying a bias voltage of 500 V and is pre-amplified by 40
dB gain. An ADC running at 1 GS/s records the signal for further digital
signal processing.
2.2. Experimental setup
The developed instrument has been operated during commissioning
of LINAC4, measuring beams of 50 MeV, 80 MeV and 107 MeV kinetic
energy. The vertical RMS beam sizes for all commissioning periods were
in the range from 1 mm to 2 mm and the H− beam current between 15
mA and 25 mA depending on the source and accelerator performance.
The time structure of the H− beam is shown in Fig. 7.
The diagnostics bench shown in Fig. 8 was moved downstream as
each section of LINAC4 was completed, enabling the emerging beam
2.1.3. Diamond detector
A single crystal (sCVD) diamond detector has been designed, to
detect the liberated low-energy electrons (𝐸𝑘𝑖𝑛 = 27 keV for 50 MeV
H− beam). Its 4 mm x 4 mm active surface is sufficient to capture all
arriving electrons per laser position when moved in synchronisation
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Fig. 7. Time structure of the LINAC4 H- beam.
Fig. 9. Spatial properties of laser beam at the IP with H- beam.
Fig. 8. Diagnostic testbench used for beam commissioning at 50 MeV, 80 MeV
and 107 MeV H- beam. [9].
at each commissioning step to be characterised. It consists of several
diagnostic instruments, most relevant for this study were the SecondaryEmission (SEM)-grids and wirescanners for transverse beam monitoring
in 3 planes. The laser-injector for vertical profile measurements is
marked with (4).
Fig. 10. Diamond signal recorded in segments.
3. System characterisation
3.1. Laser beam properties at IP
The resolution of the profile measurement is related directly to the
laser beam properties at the IP. Thus an in-situ characterisation of the
laser waist has been performed with the setup shown in Fig. 2. The result
is plotted in Fig. 9 and shows improved performance regarding previous
measurement campaigns [5]. Due to the new laser source a lower 𝑀 2
factor could be achieved, which resulted in a 20% increase of the
Rayleigh length (𝑥𝑅 ∕𝑦𝑅 ) and a 8% thinner waist (𝑤𝑥∕𝑦 ) in both planes.
The resolution of the instrument is dependent on the laser diameter but
also on its pointing stability. Due to the fibre-based delivery line no
relevant instabilities have been observed on the CCD camera (see Fig. 2),
thus the instrument resolution is defined by the vertical laser beam
waist of ±2 𝜎 = ±67 μm. The observed astigmatism does not perturb the
measurement as only the vertical plane is relevant in this application.
At the desired working point (𝑡𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑠𝑒 = 100 ns; 𝐸𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑠𝑒 = 10 μJ;
𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑟 = 86 kHz) the pulse-to-pulse power fluctuations of the laser have
been measured as they can become a significant error source of the
instrument (see Eq. (2)). An RMS pulse energy stability of 3% after
propagation through the 75 m fibre has been found. To eliminate this
introduced error, the signal of the diamond detector was normalised by
the photodiode signal recorded just before the IP (see Fig. 2).
Fig. 11. Single segment of diamond signal compared with photodiode signal of
laser pulse.
sub-harmonic of the LINAC4 bunch frequency (352.2 MHz). The 9 pulses
are the signals of the liberated electrons, created by the laser pulses
which interact with the 100 μs long H− beam pulse.
In Fig. 11 an example segment is plotted. A very clear diamond
detector signal with a pulse-shape and -length similar to the laser
pulse was observed without any background floor of non-laser-stripped
electrons. The occasional spikes (see 0.95 μs in Fig. 11 and segment 5 and
11 in Fig. 10) were attributed to hits of single protons/H− /H0 , which
were lost from the main beam. At certain beam settings this effect was
significantly increased such that some disturbance of the laser-stripped
electron-pulse was monitored.
In the data analysis of each detector segment, within pre-defined
limits (vertical bars), the positive values were integrated (hatched
surface) while the negative part, caused by the AC-coupled readout, was
neglected. By repeating this procedure for all segments and averaging
3.2. Diamond raw signal analysis
Fig. 10 shows the signal of the diamond detector recorded on an 80
MeV H− beam with average H− beam current of 14 mA. Each segment
corresponds to a time window of 1.5 μs around each laser pulse, recorded
at a laser repetition frequency of 86 kHz which is synchronised with a
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Fig. 13. Signal of diamond detector for different detector positions in 𝑌 and
different beamlet positions in 𝑍; Black frame as comparison to 4 mm × 4 mm
surface of diamond detector.
Fig. 12. Integral of pulse recorded with diamond detector versus integral of
pulse recoded with the photodiode before the IP with the 50 MeV H- beam (see
Fig. 2).
the results, the mean photo-detachment yield during the LINAC4 pulse
is gained.
3.3. Diamond linearity
To deduce the linearity of the diamond detector for different electron
fluences the laser pulse energy was scanned. For each laser setting the
signals on the diamond detector were recorded for 9 H− beam pulses and
the data was analysed as described previously. In Fig. 12 the integrated
charge read out from the diamond detector is plotted versus the signal
of the photodiode prior to the IP (see Fig. 2). In this way energyfluctuations of the laser pulse did not perturb the measurement as the
corresponding signal from the diamond detector can be assigned pulse
to pulse.
The diamond detector signal was found to follow linearly the photodiode signal within error. The small offset of diamond integral was
caused by the high proton-background present at this measurement at
50 MeV H− beam energy.
A similar measurement has been accomplished at 80 MeV beam energy. Although the gradient of the response differs due to the increased
kinetic energy of the impinging electrons, the linearity of the detector
response is similarly good.
Fig. 14. Diamond signal for different laser and detector positions.
for this discrepancy. Most significantly, the detector surface in both
dimensions is clearly sufficiently big to collect all arriving electrons per
beamlet.
The measurement of the vertical size of the H− beam with the
laserwire instrument has been performed at 50 MeV, 80 MeV and 107
MeV by a 2-dimensional scan of laser and diamond detector both in
the vertical plane, corresponding to the data visualised in Fig. 14. At
each laser position the maximum charge value in the range of diamond
detector positions was used to plot the beam profile.
To verify the accuracy of the instrument, the recorded beam profiles
were compared with SEM-grids and wirescanners installed in the vicinity of the laser (see Fig. 8, only drift spaces between the instruments).
In Fig. 15 the measured RMS beam sizes of the 107 MeV beam in
different positions along the diagnostic testbench are plotted, with the
black line corresponding to an interpolation between the SEM-grid and
wirescanner results. The discrepancy from the interpolation and the
laser measurements has been found consistently below ±2%.
In Figs. 16–18 the profiles recorded with the laserwire at different
beam energies are compared with the profiles from SEM-grids and
wirescanners which have been scaled according to the interpolated laser
position. The recorded samples of the profile correspond to the mean
values over the LINAC4 pulse length and the error bars to the RMS
deviation for measurements at multiple LINAC4 pulses. For all beam
energies a very close agreement in terms of the RMS-size but also in
particular the profile shape can be observed.
3.4. Electron beamlet size at the diamond detector
The size of the liberated beamlet in the plane of the diamond
detector was characterised experimentally to verify the electron tracking
simulations [7] and ensure that no laser-stripped electrons miss the
active detector surface.
The measurement was accomplished at an 80 MeV H− beam by
scanning the diamond detector vertically with the laser static in the
centre of the H− beam. The horizontal position (𝑧-coordinate) was
scanned with the current of the steerer magnet and hereby moved the
beamlet position in the 𝑧-plane.
The signals arriving at the diamond detector were processed and the
integrated charge was plotted in the 𝑦-𝑧-plane of the diamond detector
as shown in Fig. 13 with the active detector surface (black frame)
overlaid as a reference. The invariant signal level in the centre of the
detector indicates a beamlet size smaller than the detector dimensions.
The beamlet size was determined by calculating the derivative in the
𝑦- and 𝑧-plane, which resulted in 𝜎𝑧 = 0.4 ± 0.1 mm and 𝜎𝑦 = 0.45 ±
0.1 mm. Compared to the tracking simulation, the beamlet dimensions
are increased by a factor 2 in the 𝑧-plane and 4 in the 𝑦-plane. We assume
that magnetic stray fields, defocusing the electrons are responsible
4. Summary
We have presented the design of a laserwire profile monitor based on
a low-power laser and fibre-optic delivery to the IP with the H− beam,
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Fig. 15. Beam profile measurements at different positions at the diagnostic
testbench.
Fig. 18. Overlay of SEM-grid, wirescanner (WS) and laserwire profiles, recorded
at the 107 MeV beam.
arriving electron beamlets were measured and found to be consistently
smaller than the dimensions of the diamond detector.
Beam profile measurements were conducted at 50, 80 and 107 MeV
beam energy and the results were compared with nearby SEM-grids and
wirescanners. For all beam energies an outstanding agreement in terms
of beam-shape was observed and deviations in terms of the RMS beam
size were found below ±2% [10].
The experience and results gained with the presented profile monitor
have informed the design of a future laserwire system at LINAC4. Two of
these systems have been recently installed in the 160 MeV region [11].
Each instrument is capable of detecting both interaction products,
electrons and neutralised H0 and thus achieve redundant profile and
emittance reconstruction [12,13]. Compared with the presented setup,
the electron detection method was changed to an electron multiplier
which can be mounted at fixed location and is not affected by a potential
proton background. In addition, the laser injector was expanded to allow
horizontal and vertical injection of the laser beam into the vacuum
vessel.
Fig. 16. Overlay of SEM-grid and laserwire profiles, recorded at the 50 MeV
beam.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our colleagues in the CERN profile measurement section and the LINAC4 operation team for their strong support.
Furthermore, we are grateful for fruitful collaborations with CERN’s
normal conducting magnet group which redesigned the steerer magnet
and CIVIDEC GmbH which provided a high-performance diamond
detector.
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