A technique for high-frequency scanning of high power laser light for laser-wire scanners at electron accelerators

Electro-optic techniques might allow implementing a laserwire scanner for intra-train scanning at the ILC with scanning speed in excess of 100 kHz. A scanner capable of running at such a rate would in fact provide information about the particle beam size in about one hundred different positions along the bunch train (approximately 1ms long for the ILC). The design of an electro-optic deflector capable to scan within 10-100 microsecond is presented, discussed and analytically treated.