Design and test of SX-FEL cavity BPM

This paper reports the design and cold test of the cavity beam position monitor （CBPM） for SX-FEL to fulfill tile requirement of beam position measurement resolution of less than 1 p_m, even 0.1 btm. The CBPM was optimized by using a coupling slot to damp the TM010 mode in the output signal. Tile isolation of TM01o mode is about 117 dB, and the shunt impedance is about 200 ~@4.65 GHz with the quality factor 80 from MAFIA simulation and test result. A special antenna was designed to load power for reducing excitation of other modes in the cavity. The resulting output power of TM110 mode was about 90 mV/mm when the source was 6 dBm, and the accomplishable minimum voltage was about 200 btV. The resolution of the CBPM was about 0.1 btm from the linear fitting result based on the cold test.

Optimization of the cavity beam-position monitor system for the Shanghai soft X-ray free-electron laser user facility

To achieve high-efficiency operation of the highgain free-electron laser(FEL),the electron beams and radiated photon beams need to be overlapped precisely and pass through the entire undulator section.Therefore,a high-resolution beam-position monitor(BPM)is required.A cavity BPM(CBPM)with a resonant cavity structure was developed and used in the Shanghai Soft X-ray FEL(SXFEL)test facility and can achieve a position resolution of<1μm.The construction and operation of the SXFEL user facility also bring about higher requirements for beamposition measurement.In this case,the factors that affect the performance of the CBPM system were further analyzed.These included the amplitude and phase stability of the local oscillator,stability of the trigger signal,performance of the radio frequency front-end,signal processing electronics,and signal processing algorithms.Based on the upgrade and optimization of the system,a beam test platform was built at the end of the linear acceleration section of the SXFEL,and the experimental results show that the position resolution of the system can reach 177 nm at a bunch charge of 500 pC,and the dynamic range is controlled within±300μm,and the relative measurement uncertainty of the bunch charge can reach 0.021%,which are significant improvements compared to the attributes of the previous system.

RF measurements of a C-band cavity beam position monitor

RF cold test of a novel C-band cavity beam position monitor （PBM） to be used in the SDUVFEL Test Facility is described. The test results are presented and some characteristics discussed. The main parameters obtained are in reasonable agreement with the analytical estimations. Effective suppression of the common mode has been demonstrated. The position sensitivity over the test region of μ0.5 mm is about -21.58 dB/10 μm for the TM110 mode and is linear in the central region of the BPM cavity.