Solar, B.
(B. Solar)

TUPOS45 FEL and Libera both Push Performance into New Frontiers
Rok Ursic, B. Solar (Instrumentation Technologies, Solkan)

Free Electron Lasers and Libera electron beam position processor share a common vocation – they both push performance into new frontiers. Advances in electron accelerator technology that enabled FELs to fulfill their earliest days promises have also been due to the recent developments in the beam instrumentation. Libera that has till know been successfully employed in the light sources projects promises to become an indispensable tool also in the FEL field. The three main advantages of Libera are: all-in-one, customization and connectivity. All-in-one is the concept of unification of various building blocks and thus various functionalities in one product. The customization is enabled by the product’s reconfigurability that allows it to grow and support new requirements and application without changing hardware. The consequence of the two is the capacity of the single instrument to perform a variety of tasks that before were split among different devices. Connectivity improves the communication between controls and beam diagnostics, brings out-of-the crate-freedom and opens unforeseen possibilities for inter-accelerator cooperation and remote technical support.