At the Swiss Light Source, the super-bend bending magnet front end, combining multi-function components and optics for the TOMCAT beamline, is in operation. The Femto front end, with a special design, has been installed recently. A new type of CVD filter for the PX Front End and NEG coating technology applied on the components both show good results. All will be described in this article. INDRODUCTION At the Swiss Light Source, seven Insertion Device Front Ends (IDFEs) and five Bending Magnet

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... ont Ends (BMFEs) are in operation, and new FEs are under construction and will be installed by the end of 2006. The FEs operate with remarkable performance and high reliability. The optimization and the standardization of the FE layout, component design and system definition, together with results, have been presented in [1] . Here, the new design for the super-bend BMFE and Femto FE, and some results for a new CVD filter and NEG coating technology will be presented. SUPER-BEND BMFE FIGURE 1. SLS Super-bend field FIGURE 2. X02DFE General Layout There are three super-bends at the SLS, which are in section 2 for the TOMCAT beamline, in section 6 for the PXIII beamline and in section 10 for the Super XAS beamline. Each super-bend section BMFE has DA and DB branches. The DA branch has the super-bend field of 2.9 Tesla, and the DB branch has the normal field of 1.4 Tesla. The super-bend field distribution along the axis is shown in figure 1 . The super-bend BMFE DA contains not only 1030 CP879, Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation: Ninth International Conference, edited by Jae-Young Choi and Seungyu Rah