For BESSY II, synchrotron radiation beam diagnostics will be incorpora
ted in both the insertion-device front ends and the dipole-beamline fr
ont ends. In order to gain a complete picture of the source characteri
stics, a diagnostic front end has been designed and tested for dipole
radiation. This consists of (i) a pinhole array imaging system, (ii) a
double-blade system for the determination of the vertical center of g
ravity of the synchrotron radiation fan, and (iii) a Bragg-Fresnel mul
tilayer system for the most precise image information about the source
size and shape.