Properties of Synchrotron Radiation
- Broad Spectrum (which covers from microwaves to hard X-rays): the users can select the wavelength required for their experiment.
- High Flux: high intensity photon beam allows rapid experiments or use of weakly scattering crystals.
- High Brilliance: highly collimated photon beam generated by a small divergence and small size source (spatial coherence)
- High Stability: submicron source stability
- Polarization: both linear and circular
- Pulsed Time Structure: pulsed length down to tens of picoseconds allows the resolution of process on the same time scale.
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