Synchrotron Radiation-Its Characteristics and Future-

Future Metrology Needs for Synchrotron Radiation Mirrors

An international workshop on metrology for X-ray and neutron optics, the first of its kind, was held March 16-17, 2000, at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Engineers and scientists from around the world met to evaluate current metrology instrumentation and methods used to characterize the surface figure and finish of long, grazing-incidence optics used in synchrotron r...

Synchrotron Radiation Sources for the Future

1. Introduction Synchrotron sources have proven to be immensely important research tools throughout the biological, physical and engineering sciences. This is illustrated by the fact that most issues of Science or Nature are likely to contain articles which depended on synchrotron radiation (SR). Worldwide , about 70 SR sources are in various stages of operation, construction, or planning, repr...

Synchrotron radiation sources - present capabilities and future directions.

Many of the more than 40 operational light sources around the world have achieved performance levels that exceed initial design goals. These accomplishments are reviewed, along with concepts and proposals for sources with performance levels exceeding those of present sources. These include storage rings with lower electron-beam emittance than present third-generation rings and free-electron las...

Synchrotron Radiation and Pretzeled Orbits Geometry of Synchrotron Radiation Illumination

Turning on a `pretzel' , or any closed orbit distortion, can substantially alter the path of synchrotron radiation (SR), in some instances causing it to strike components not designed to absorb the radiation. In this paper I develop equations useful in determining the source position and angle of dipole SR as a function of the pretzel amplitude and angle. Formula for linear power deposition and...

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