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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 103, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4823590
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- Dutch Technology Foundation STW, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Ministry of Economic Affairs
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We demonstrate a method to measure synchronization between femtosecond laser pulses and the electric field inside a resonant 3 GHz radio frequency (RF) cavity. The method utilizes the Pockels effect in a crystal inside the RF cavity by measuring the retardation of the components of polarization as a function of RF phase. Resolution of the setup used is shown to be 29 +/- 2 fs (root-mean-square, rms), with timing jitter between the laser pulses and the RF field inside the cavity of 96 +/- 7 fs (rms). The method provides a tool to reduce jitter and improve time-resolution in ultrafast electron diffraction experiments. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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