Permanent magnet steerers for canted undulators at the ESRF

A number of canted undulators will be installed at the ESRF. Permanent Magnet Steerers will be used for providing canting angles up to 5.4 mrad. These steerers have been optimized in view of the limited space available and the required field quality. The magnetic interaction between the steerers and the undulators may lead to additional optical phase errors: auxiliary poles have been added to obtain a fast decrease of the fringe field. The transverse homogeneity of the magnetic field integral is another strong design constraint. Good homogeneity was reached by optimizing the profiles of the iron poles. Eight steerers have been constructed and magnetic measurements have been performed.