Impact and trends in embedding field programmable gate arrays and microcontrollers in scientific instrumentation

M Carminati, G Scandurra - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Microcontrollers and field-programmable gate arrays have been largely leveraged in
scientific instrumentation since decades. Recent advancements in the performance of these …

Femtosecond time synchronization of optical clocks off of a flying quadcopter

H Bergeron, LC Sinclair, WC Swann, I Khader… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Future optical clock networks will require free-space optical time-frequency transfer between
flying clocks. However, simple one-way or standard two-way time transfer between flying …

Phase space dynamics of a plasma wakefield dechirper for energy spread reduction

YP Wu, JF Hua, Z Zhou, J Zhang, S Liu, B Peng… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Plasma-based accelerators have made impressive progress in recent years. However, the
beam energy spread obtained in these accelerators is still at the∼ 1% level, nearly one …

Measurements of the growth and saturation of electron Weibel instability in optical-field ionized plasmas

C Zhang, J Hua, Y Wu, Y Fang, Y Ma, T Zhang, S Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The temporal evolution of the magnetic field associated with electron thermal Weibel
instability in optical-field ionized plasmas is measured using ultrashort (1.8 ps), relativistic …

High-throughput injection–acceleration of electron bunches from a linear accelerator to a laser wakefield accelerator

Y Wu, J Hua, Z Zhou, J Zhang, S Liu, B Peng, Y Fang… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Plasma-based accelerators driven by either intense lasers or charged particle beams can
accelerate electrons or positrons with extremely high gradients compared with conventional …

Single-shot spatial-temporal electric field measurement of intense terahertz pulses from coherent transition radiation

Q Tian, Y Du, H Xu, Y Liang, Y Wang, Y Tan, L Yan… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
Coherent transition radiation (CTR) is a widely used approach to characterize the electron
beam in accelerator science and technology. Characterization of the CTR with an efficient …

Commissioning the photoinjector of a gamma-ray light source

H Chen, L Yan, Q Tian, Z Lin, D Wang, C Cheng… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
The Xian gamma-ray light source (XGLS) is a proposed novel high brightness gamma-ray
source based on inverse Compton scattering (ICS) between the high brightness electron …

A low level radio frequency system drift compensation technique by time-multiplexing pick-up/reference signals

Z Lin, Y Du, W Huang, G Huang, Y Xu… - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The Low Level radio frequency system long-term stability is critical for the operation of
accelerator facilities. The RF cavity field phase drift observed at the Tsinghua Thomson …

Femtosecond precision optical frequency and timing distribution for radio astronomy

K Şafak, A Dai, M Hagemann… - Advances in Optical and …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Frequency and timing (F&T) distribution systems are the backbone of astronomical
telescopes providing the required temporal resolution for challenging space missions …

An Upgrade of Radio Frequency Reference Generation and Distribution Modules for FLASH2020+

M Urbański, B Gąsowski, K Czuba, B Kola, P Jatczak… - Electronics, 2025 - mdpi.com
Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg (FLASH), first launched in 2005, was the first free-electron
laser that provided ultrashort radiation pulses in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray spectral …