DESIGN OF AN ULTRA-COMPACT STRIPLINE BPM RECEIVER USING MICROTCA FOR LCLS-II AT SLAC*

The Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) is a free electron laser (FEL) light source. LCLS II will produce 0.5 to 77 Angstroms soft and hard x-rays [1]. In order to achieve this high level of performance, the beam position measurement system needs to be accurate so the electron beam can be stable. The LCLS-II stripline Beam Position Monitor (BPM) system has a dynamic range of 10pC to 1nC bunch charge. The system has a resolution requirement of 5µm [2]. The BPM system uses the MicroTCA (Micro Telecommunication Computing Architecture) physics platform that consists of an analog front-end (AFE) and a 16-bit analog to digital converter (ADC) module. This paper will discuss the hardware design, architecture, and performance measurements of this system using the SLAC LINAC. The hardware architecture includes a bandpass filter at 300MHz with 15 MHz bandwidth, and an automated BPM calibration process.