Section outline

    • Being called a parasitic radiation in the middle of 20th century, synchrotron radiation have turned into an independent and practically oriented area of science.

    • Let's travel through the main parts of the synchrotron and see how the synchrorton radiation is generated. We will start from linac and booster and end up with bending magnets and insertion devices. Maybe we also visit a canteen - the most attractive part for exhausted synchrotron users. 

    • X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) represent a new type of linear electron accelerators producing extremely brilliant, ultra-short (~ 100 fs) and spatially coherent X-ray pulses.

    • Let's learn a couple of fascinating scientific studies done at large scale facilities from the world-leading researchers.