Non-Intercepting Bunch Length Monitor for Picosecond Electron Bunches

Abstract

A bunch length monitor for very short electron bunches, r.m.s. > 1 ps, has been implemented in the CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) Test Facility (CTF) at CERN. It consists of a long, rectangular wavegu ide connected at one end to the beam pipe and a detection system at the other end. Information on the bunch length is obtained by frequency-domain analysis of the signal excited by the beam in the wav eguide. The signal can be detected either by a fast diode detector or by a RF mixer in combination with a RF sweep oscillator. With the diode detector, single-shot measurements can be performed, while the mixer set-up allows quantitative bunch length measurements for single bunches and for bunch-trains. The design and installation of two monitors and detection systems operating in two different fre quency bands, Ka (26.5--40 GHz) and E (60--90 GHz), are described. Results obtained with the new monitor are presented and compared with bunch length measurements that were performed simultaneously wi th a streak camera recording Cerenkov Radiation.