• F. Marteau, P. Berteaud, F. Bouvet, L. Chapuis, M.-E. Couprie, J.P. Daguerre, J.-M. Filhol, A. Mary, K. Tavakoli
  SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette

A new electromagnetic/permanent magnets helical undulator, with a 65 mm magnetic period is under development at SOLEIL for providing a rapid switching of the photon polarization required to perform dichroïsm experiments. The vertical field will be produced by coils fed by a fast switching power supply, with a maximum current of 350 A and a polarity switching time shorter than 100ms. The coils consist of copper sheets cut by water jet method. 26 layers of copper will be stacked together while 10 of them will be water cooled. The current-regulated power supply should be able to operate in the 4 quadrants with a 50 ppm current resolution over the full scale. The design of this home made power supply will be described. The horizontal field will be generated by NdFeB permanent magnets. The design vertical and horizontal peak field values in the helical configuration are 0.24 T at the minimum 15.5 mm gap. The magnetic design and the correction scheme will be described. A prototype was built to characterise and validate the technical choices, and the results will be discussed. The efficiency of the cooling system and the results of the magnetic measurements will be presented.