The 6th Libera Workshop to be held 13–15 October The Libera community will gather for the sixth time in Solkan, Slovenia on 13, 14 and 15 October. The program will consist of hands-on Libera training, contributions from users, and presentations and live demonstrations of instruments. To make the program interesting for new as well as experienced Libera users, we invite you to send us suggestions and wishes for the workshop. Download and read contributions from last year‘s Libera Workshop at: http://www.i-tech.si/products.php?meni1=8. Join the community and put the workshop in your 2010 schedule!

Beam stabilization solution for FELs to be presented at IRUVX   The Libera family has recently been expanded with new members providing beam stabilization for fourth-generation light sources (FELs). Libera Brilliance Single Pass (an electron beam position processor for single pass machines), Libera LLRF (a digital RF stabilization system) and Libera Sync (a low-jitter clock distribution system) combined together help to achieve beam stabilization. All three instruments will be presented at the IRUVX-PP Annual Meeting near Berlin on 1–2 March. You are welcome to visit our booth or contact us at: info@i-tech.si. Find out more about the instruments at: http://www.i-tech.si/products.php?meni1=1.

ALBA successfully commissions booster equipped with Libera Brilliance "The Liberas were extensively used (especially the turn-by-turn capability) and the users were satisfied with the results," said Jairo Moldes, a software engineer at ALBA (CELLS) about the successfully commissioned booster at the beginning of the year. According to the CELLS web page, the first operational tests have been performed in the booster, with results that show how all components, subsystems and equipment perform accordingly to specifications. ALBA, a third-generation light source facility in Spain, is in its last phase of construction and will provide world-class light quality (brilliance), which will be used for research across a broad range of scientific disciplines. There are 28 Libera Brilliance units installed on the booster and another 134 units waiting for the commissioning of the storage ring, planned for the coming months. Instrumentation Technologies congratulates the ALBA team for this step forward!

Libera Bunch-by-Bunch measures the beam energy at CLS The Libera Bunch-by-Bunch is used to damp coupled bunch instabilities and, together with the Libera Bunch-by-Bunch Front End, to close transverse and longitudinal feedback loop. Bunch cleaning feature can also be used. An interesting experiment was recently carried out at the Canadian Light Source (CLS). By exploiting the embedded Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO), the team at CLS has partially depolarized the beam and measured the beam energy in the storage ring. They succeeded in measuring the beam energy to the 0.1-MeV level. For more details, please contact us at support@i-tech.si. The paper on Bunch Cleaning at the Canadian Light Source presented at PAC09 conference is also available for download at: http://www.i-tech.si/support.php?meni1=4.