Remote control of turn-by-turn photon beam profile monitor at the SPring-8 diagnostics beamline II

The turn-by-turn beam profile monitor (TTPM) using undulator radiation is installed in the diagnostic beamline II (BL05SS) of the SPring-8 storage ring to observe stored beam oscillation, instabilities of a high current single bunch and so on. The TTPM system employs a high-speed CCD camera (ProEM 512BK by Princeton Instruments) with a special function to record turn-by-turn images both of horizontal and vertical spatial profiles in a single picture by vertically shifting electric charge stored in the CCD elements in microseconds. The CCD camera can be controlled by using WinSpec32 software (Prinston Instruments) running on a local Windows PC at BL05SS via a gigabit Ethernet interface. We have built a TTPM remote control system to realize continuous and automatic observation of stored beam stability during the user time operation at the SPring-8 central control room. The TTPM remote control system consists of the following three parts; control software of WinSpec32 by through COM (Component Object Model) on the local Windows PC, remote application software on Linux operator consoles and communication software using ZeroMQ between the WinSpec32 control software and the remote application software. As the remote application software, two kinds of GUIs are prepared. One is for the measurement of the stored beam oscillation at the top-up injection, and the other is for the instability observation of a high current single bunch. These GUIs provide functions of display of the captured image, fitting calculation of the image, display the result and record it into the DB and so on. The remote control system has been utilized for the stability observation by operators in the central control room since December 2012 and worked well. (author)