TY - CPAPER
AU - Lorbeer, B.
AU - Baboi, N.
AU - Petrosyan, L.P.
AU - Schmidt-Föhre, F.
TI - Design, Development and Commissioning of a MTCA-Based Button and Strip-Line BPM System for FLASH2
J2 - Proc. of IBIC2014
AB - The FLASH (Free Electron Laser in Hamburg) facility at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in Germany has been extended by a new undulator line called FLASH2 to provide twice as many experimental stations for users in the future*. After the acceleration of the electron bunch train up to 1.2GeV, a part can be kicked into FLASH2, while the other is going to the old undulator line. In order to tune the wavelength of the SASE (Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission), the new line is equipped with variable gap undulators. The commissioning phase of FLASH2 started in early 2014 and is planned to be continued parasitically during user operation in FLASH1. One key point during first beam commissioning is the availability of standard diagnostic devices such as BPM (Beam Position Monitor). In this paper we present the design and first operational experience of a new BPM system for button and strip-line monitors based on MTCA.4***. This is referred to as LCBPM (low charge BPM) in contrast to the old systems at FLASH initially designed for bunch charges of 1nC and higher. We summarize the recent analog and digital hardware development progress[**,****] and first commissioning experience of this new BPM system at FLASH2 and present a first estimation of its resolution in a large charge range from 1nC down to 100pC and smaller.
PB - JACoW
CY - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 320
EP - 323
KW - electronics
KW - timing
KW - operation
KW - undulator
KW - electron
DA - 2014/10
PY - 2014
SN - 978-3-95450-141-0
UR - http://jacow.org/IBIC2014/papers/tupf08.pdf
ER -