STATUS OF THE FEMTOSECOND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AT ELBE

The superconducting electron accelerator ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is currently upgraded to enable continuous wave operation with bunch charges of up to 1 nC and durations down to 200 fs (RMS). The new beamline will drive a THz source and an X-ray source based on Thomson backscattering [1]. Both light sources call for synchronization on the femtosecond scale to enable time resolved experiments.