Beam position monitoring and feedback steering system at the photon factory

A version of the beam steering servo system was used to vertically position and stabilize the synchrotron radiation beam at the Photon Factory. System components included a photon beam position monitor located 12 m from the bend magnet source point, a servo controller containing frequency compensation and gain circuits, and a 3-magnet orbital bump steering system. Two types of position monitor, one an ion chamber and the other on in-vacuum device, were used in the system. Vertical beam position noise spectra obtained from these monitors showed predominant peaks occurring at 14.5 Hz, 50 Hz, and at several other frequencies in the 1 to 100 Hz range. The closed-loop system was able to reduce low frequency positional offsets (< 0.1 Hz) by a factor of 1000, and the 14.5 Hz oscillation by a factor of 6