Experimental measurements of the ORION photoinjector drive laser oscillator subsystem

Timing jitter measurements have been conducted on the ORION photoinjector laser oscillator pulse train output with respect to a ultra low noise crystal rf oscillator running at 79 1/3 MHz, the 36th harmonic of S-Band. The ORION laser oscillator subsystem consists of a Spectra-Physics Tsunami ultra-fast tunable (750 - 850 nm) laser pumped by a diode pumped Spectra-Physics Millennia VsP 5 W. Overall laser oscillator subsystem performance will be presented. These measurements consist of the laser oscillator generated noise and transfer function from the RF reference input of the laser to an external photodiode RF output. Timing jitter measurements of less than 500 fsec have been attained with the laser oscillator tuned to 800 nm.