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Timing Synchronization and Feedback

Description:

Lasers for accelerator applications must be synchronized to external timing sources, most often in the form of microwave reference signals. As experiments come to depend on increasingly shorter laser and particle bunch lengths, the timing requirement becomes increasingly challenging. Modern commercial laser systems lock with ~100 fsec RMS timing jitter. Applications to develop field-installable upgrades for widely used laser systems (eg. Ti:Sapphire) that can improve the timing jitter with respect to the external reference to 10 fsec are sought.
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