Author: Bouvet, F.
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TUODB03 Innovative Design of the Fast Switching Power Supplies for the SOLEIL EMPHU Insertion and its Fast Correctors 982
 
  • F. Bouvet, D. Aballea, R. Ben El Fekih, S. Bobault, M. Bol, Y. Bouanani, Y. Dietrich, A. Hardy, F. Marteau
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  A new electromagnetic/permanent magnets helical undulator has been designed and is under commissioning at SOLEIL. For a fast switching of the photon polarization, it requires a power supply able to switch between +/–350 A within 50 ms, without any current overshoot and with a very good current resolution over the full scale (50 ppm). The in-house design is based on two full switching bridges with interleaved commands. Combined with a regulation scheme using sophisticated algorithms, such a design enables to reach a high control bandwidth, permitting fast transitions. Such a fast and accurate system needs well performing digital control electronics. We chose the digital control cards developed at Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen CH) for the SLS (Swiss Light Source). The components, measurements, interlocks, control interfaces, and electronic cards were developed and assembled together at SOLEIL. This paper will present the main lines of this development and the performances achieved during the EMPHU insertion commissioning. The design of the fast power supplies (±20 A) needed for corrector magnets of this insertion will also be presented.  
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THPC151 The 65 mm Period Electromagnetic/Permanent Magnets Helical Undulator at SOLEIL 3239
 
  • F. Marteau, P. Berteaud, F. Bouvet, L. Chapuis, M.-E. Couprie, J.P. Daguerre, T.K. El Ajjouri, J.-M. Filhol, P. Lebasque, J.L. Marlats, A. Mary, K. Tavakoli
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  SOLEIL prepares a new 65 mm period Electromagnetic/Permanent Magnets Helical Undulator (EMPHU), with a rapid switching at 5 Hz of the polarization required for dichroïsm experiments. The vertical field Bz is produced by coils fed by a fast switching power supply (designed and built in house), with a maximum current of 350 A and a polarity switching time shorter than 100 ms. The coils consist of 25 stacked copper layers shaped by water jet cutting. The current flows in 16 layers and 9 of them are cooled with thermal drain to a water piping. 4 additional power supplies feed 2 types of correction coils for the dynamic compensation of the field integrals, besides the ones for the termination. 1.28 T remanence NdFeB permanent magnets generate the horizontal field Bx. Peak Bz and Bx in the helical configuration reach 0.24 T at 14.7 mm minimum gap. Thermal modelling and measurements aim at keeping the magnet temperature constant. The static magnetic configuration was optimised using the IDBuilder software and the trajectory were checked for insuring a good reproducibility of the photon beam pointing when sweeping from one helicity to the other.