First results of the novel photon beam position monitor for undulator beamlines of Elettra

The latest generation SR sources have severe constraints for the stability of the delivered radiation. The high brightness beamlines using undulator radiation are most sensitive to electron beam oscillations. Therefore, photon beam position monitors for undulator radiation are being built as detectors of beam movement and as references for feedback systems. A significant part of the radiation coming from the upstream and downstream dipoles is superimposed on the undulator radiation. A novel detector, incorporating photoelectron analysers, has been developed at Elettra. It can be tuned to the working energy of the undulator from few eV to some keV, the active elements intercepting the tails of the photon distribution. A prototype has been developed for the vertical photon beam position monitoring, and a complete set of characterisation measurements has been performed down to the lowest photon energies of the undulator peak. A description of the detector and its features are presented along with the commissioning results.