KEYWORDS: Crystals, Control systems, Data modeling, Polarization, Neural networks, Machine learning, Electron beams, Visual process modeling, Systems modeling, Dysprosium
The Pockels Cells play important role in generating helicity-flipping polarized laser beam to be used in high energy electron beam accelerator facility. Due to exceptional requirements for ultra-stable electron beam in modern nuclear physics experiment, the operation of Pockels Cells which are key components to generate stable electron beam becomes critical. However, since the operation of Pockels Cell, which usually work in pair, involves beam alignments up to 12 degrees of freedom, it requires extremely complicated controls to maintain the stable output beam through whole operation time of accelerator. In this paper, we combined the machine learning method with the Pockels Cells control system, automatically collected data of Pockels cells optical properties such as polarization extinction ratio (PER), beam position, optical intensity asymmetry, etc., at different orientation angles and physical potions, and built an artificial neural network which can determine the optimal position of Pockels Cells. The trained artificial neural network can predict the PER, intensity asymmetry, beam position difference with a mean agreement around 95%, which makes it possible to find the optimal yaw/pitch/roll angles and physical positions of the Pockels cells in a short time. This technology can also be translated to alignments of devices in other laser systems such as high energy ultrafast oscillators and amplifiers.
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