Transverse Emittance Exchange for Improved Injection Efficiency *

In most cases beam is injected into electron storage rings in the horizontal plane and off-axis. The larger the horizontal emittance of the injected beam the larger the acceptance of the ring has to be. The injected beam is usually delivered by a synchrotron. In case the vertical acceptance of the ring is sufficiently large one can take advantage of the small vertical emittance reached in well aligned and tuned synchrotrons since the transverse emittances can be exchanged with the help of skew quadrupole magnets. A few possible processes will be discussed: emittance exchange with static magnets in the transfer line between synchrotron and ring or emittance exchange in the synchrotron shortly before extraction with time dependent magnets. This could be a suddenly switched-on normal or skew quadrupole magnet or skew quadrupole fields oscillating at a frequency fulfilling the resonance condition. Estimates for these magnets and their design will be given.