List of synchrotron radiation facilities

A list of storage rings and free electron lasers used as synchrotron radiation sources by country.

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Armenia

• Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission (CANDLE), Yerevan (proposed) [1]

Australia

• Australian Synchrotron (AS), Melbourne, Victoria, [2]

Brazil

• Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron (LNLS), Campinas

Canada

• Canadian Light Source (CLS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

China (PRC)

• Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF), Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), University of Science and Technology China, Hefei
• Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Shanghai (under construction; commissioning to begin at end of 2008)

Denmark

• ASTRID, Institute for Storage Ring Facilities (ISA), University of Aarhus, Aarhus, [3]

France

• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble
• Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (LURE), Orsay (decommissioned)
• Centre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay (CLIO), Orsay
• Soleil, Saint-Aubin

Germany

• ANKA, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, [4]
• Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY), Berlin, [5]
• Dortmund Electron Test Accelerator (DELTA), Dortmund University, Dortmund, [6]
• ELBE, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, [7]
• Electron Stretcher Accelerator (ELSA), University of Bonn, Bonn, [8]
• Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor (HASYLAB), at DESY, Hamburg, [9]

India

• INDUS, Center for Advanced Technology, Indore

Italy

• DAFNE Light, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), Frascati, [10]
• ELETTRA Synchtrotron Light Source, Trieste, [11]

Japan

• Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima
• Instute of Free Electron Laser (iFEL), Osaka University, Osaka
• IR FEL Research Center (FEL-SUT), Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, [12]
• Medical Synchrotron Radiation Facility, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba [13]
• Nagoya University Small Synchrotron Radiation Facility (NSSR), Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, [14]
• Photon Factory (PF) at KEK, Tsukuba
• Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki
• Saga Light Source (SAGA-LS), Tosu, Saga, [15]
• Super Photon Ring - 8 GeV (SPring-8), Nishi-Harima
• Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility (UVSOR), Okazaki, [16]
• VSX Light Source, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, [17]

Jordan

• International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, [18]

Netherlands

• Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments (FELIX), FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics, Nieuwegein

Russia

• Dubna Electron Synchrotron (DELSY), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna near Moscow, [19]
• Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source (SIBIR-1, SIBIR-2), Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, [20]
• Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre (SSRC), Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, [21]
• TNK F.V Lukin Institute, Zelenograd near Moscow, [22]

Singapore

• Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS), National University of Singapore, [23]

South Korea

• Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, [24]

Spain

• ALBA, Barcelona, [25]

Sweden

• MAX-lab, Lund University, Lund, [26]

Switzerland

• Swiss Light Source (SLS), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, [27]

Taiwan

• National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, [28]

Thailand

• [29]National Synchrotron Research Center (NSRC), Nakhon Ratchasima, [30]

United Kingdom

• Diamond Light Source, Didcot
• Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS), Daresbury, [31]

United States

• Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
• Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
• Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (CTST), University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, [32]
• Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Jefferson Laboratory Free Electron Laser (Jlab), Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, [33]
• National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
• Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stoughton, Wisconsin
• Stanford Picosecond FEL Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, [34]
• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California
• Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
• W. M. Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee