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In the BESSY FEL design a kicker system is forseen to extract electron bunches from the main LINAC into two FEL beam lines, beside the straigth main beamline. Sine half wave pulsers with a repetion rate of up to 1 kHz and modest pulse currents of 120A will be used. To receive the maximum FEL gain, it is crucial, that the extracted bunches enter well centered into the undulators. Hence, the extraction demands for very high short-term stability of the magnetic field (shot to shot). A kicker pulse amplitude with a relative amplitude jitter smaller than 5* 10-5 would be tolerable ?more than one order smaller than the jitter of conventional BESSY II kicker systems in use. A new highly stable semiconductor based kicker pulser prototype was designed, built and tested at BESSY. It was shown that the stability of the pulse current fulfills the FEL requirements. The pulser design, its layout and the corresponding pulse current jitter measurements are presented.
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