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Beam Conditioning

Slits, filters, masks and apertures that define the beam and manage its power, from undulator beamlines to superconducting wigglers.

At a glance

  • Angled water-cooled copper blades (OFHC or Glidcop) with a tungsten hard edge defining the beam.
  • One motor sets the slit gap and a second scans the slits in the beam.
  • Actuator resolution to 0.1µm, with 5µm repeatability in open loop and <1µm with an encoder.
  • Thermally isolated design for thermal stability and minimal drift.
  • Canted undulator slits with a bypass aperture for the adjacent canted beam.
  • Very high heat load slits absorbing >10kW per blade.
  • Graphite filters up to 500µm thick, absorbing >6kW.
  • Slit blade design optimised for the power requirements of the beamline.
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Fixed mask and differential pump assembly with labelled vertical and horizontal primary slits, cooled aperture, bellows and ion pumps
Fixed mask and differential pump: a windowless interface to the front end.

In this range

  • Primary slit blades in water-cooled copper on their through-vacuum mounts

    Primary Slits

    Centre opening and scanning undulator slits. L-aperture slits are available for high-power applications and canted undulator geometries.

    Resolution
    0.1µm
    Repeatability
    5µm open loop, <1µm with an encoder
    L-aperture
    ±5mm horizontal and vertical travel
  • Copper blades of the canted undulator slits

    Canted Undulator Slits

    GSECARS and HPCAT at the Advanced Photon Source

    Designed for APS 200mA ring current operation, with a tungsten hard edge thermally decoupled from the Glidcop body.

    Translation
    ±4mm, 0.5μm /step
    Slit gap
    4mm to -0.2mm
    Limits
    Meets APS Glidcop limits of 300°C and 400MPa
  • Water-cooled copper blades of the very high heat load horizontal slits

    Very High Heat Load Slits & Filters

    Imaging and Medical Beamline, Australian Synchrotron

    Designed for a superconducting multipole wiggler with white beam power densities >120 W/mm2.

    Horizontal
    >10kW per blade
    Vertical
    >7kW per blade
    Filters
    5 paddles, each with 3 graphite foils and a bypass aperture
  • Render of a water-cooled pinhole aperture with copper cooling tubes

    Power Management Apertures

    GSECARS at the APS; IMBL at the Australian Synchrotron

    Masks and apertures in water-cooled Glidcop for beam conditioning and power management.

    Pinhole
    Absorbs >2kW; exit aperture 1.1mm × 0.7mm
    Fixed mask
    Limits the wiggler fan to 5mrad, absorbing >8kW
  • Fixed mask and differential pump assembly with labelled vertical and horizontal primary slits, cooled aperture, bellows and ion pumps

    Fixed Mask & Differential Pump

    XFM at the Australian Synchrotron; HPCAT and GSECARS at the APS

    A water-cooled fixed mask in a windowless interface to the front end, with differential pumping across the mask via a pair of ion pumps.

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