High Power Laser and Particle Beams, Volume. 37, Issue 6, 064001(2025)

Development and application of timing system with sub-nanosecond delay resolution for accelerator devices

Peng Zhu1,2,3,4, Yuliang Zhang2,3,4, Dapeng Jin3,4、*, Gongfa Liu1, and Mingyang Huang2,3,4
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  • 1National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China
  • 2Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, Dongguan 523803, China
  • 3Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Figures & Tables(13)
    Structure diagram of timing system for chopper and kicker
    Structure diagram of timing system
    Schematic and image of the timing logic board
    Diagram of PCB processing for high-performance active crystal oscillators
    Diagram of terminal hardware functions
    Schematic of timing logic function
    Performance of synchronous timing
    Diagram of timing synchronization scheme based on high-speed serial transmission
    Performance of synchronous signals based on high-speed serial transmission
    Installation and commissioning of the timing system
    Emittance measurements on RF ion source laboratory platforms
    • Table 1. Requirement of triggers for the RF Ion Source

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      Table 1. Requirement of triggers for the RF Ion Source

      frequency setting/Hzjitter of trigger signals/nsdelay range of trigger signals/sdelay adjustment length of trigger signalspulse width range of trigger signals/spulse width adjustment length of trigger signals
      1, 5, 25, 50<10~210 ns, 1 μs, 1 ms0~210 ns, 1 μs, 1 ms
    • Table 2. Requirement of triggers for the RCS kicker and chopper

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      Table 2. Requirement of triggers for the RCS kicker and chopper

      signal frequency/MHztransmission typetransmission jitter/nsstep of signal width/nsstep of signal delay/ns
      1.02optical-fiber<111
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    Peng Zhu, Yuliang Zhang, Dapeng Jin, Gongfa Liu, Mingyang Huang. Development and application of timing system with sub-nanosecond delay resolution for accelerator devices[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2025, 37(6): 064001

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    Received: Jul. 22, 2024

    Accepted: Mar. 4, 2025

    Published Online: Jun. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Dapeng Jin (jindp@ihep.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.11884/HPLPB202537.240240

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