A high-finesse Fabry–Perot cavity with a frequency-doubled green laser for precision Compton polarimetry at Jefferson Lab

A high-finesse Fabry–Perot cavity with a frequency-doubled continuous wave green laser (532nm) has been built and installed in Hall A of Jefferson Lab for high precision Compton polarimetry. The infrared (1064nm) beam from a ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier seeded by a Nd:YAG nonplanar ring oscillato...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2016-06, Vol.822, p.82-96
Hauptverfasser: Rakhman, A., Hafez, M., Nanda, S., Benmokhtar, F., Camsonne, A., Cates, G.D., Dalton, M.M., Franklin, G.B., Friend, M., Michaels, R.W., Nelyubin, V., Parno, D.S., Paschke, K.D., Quinn, B.P., Souder, P.A., Tobias, W.A.
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Zusammenfassung:A high-finesse Fabry–Perot cavity with a frequency-doubled continuous wave green laser (532nm) has been built and installed in Hall A of Jefferson Lab for high precision Compton polarimetry. The infrared (1064nm) beam from a ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier seeded by a Nd:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator laser is frequency doubled in a single-pass periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3 crystal. The maximum achieved green power at 5W infrared pump power is 1.74W with a total conversion efficiency of 34.8%. The green beam is injected into the optical resonant cavity and enhanced up to 3.7kW with a corresponding enhancement of 3800. The polarization transfer function has been measured in order to determine the intra-cavity circular laser polarization within a measurement uncertainty of 0.7%. The PREx experiment at Jefferson Lab used this system for the first time and achieved 1.0% precision in polarization measurements of an electron beam with energy and current of 1.06GeV and 50μA.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2016.03.085