A Fast Gated Intensified Camera Setup for Transversal Beam Diagnostics at the ANKA Storage Ring

ANKA, the synchrotron light source at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), can be operated in different modes including the short bunch operation with bunch lengths compressed to a few picoseconds. In this mode, coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) is emitted leading to beam instabilities. For gaining further insight into those processes, a setup based on a fast gated intensified camera was installed recently at the visible light diagnostics beamline of the ANKA storage ring. The experimental layout consists of an optical setup, which magnifies the image of the beam in the horizontal and demagnifies it in the vertical plane to obtain a projection of the horizontal beam shape, the camera itself and a fast scanning galvanometric mirror that sweeps this image across the sensor. This allows the tracking of the horizontal bunch size and position over many turns. In this paper we present the setup and show first measurement results.
Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA