This is a table of synchrotrons and storage rings used as synchrotron radiation sources, and free electron lasers.
Facility nameLocationCountryEnergy (GeV)Circumference or length (m)Commissioned for synchrotron radiation studiesDecommissioned National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) Brookhaven National Laboratory US 3 792 2015Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF)National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland US 0.18 1961 SURF II storage ring, Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland US 0.25 1974 SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland US 0.4165.272000Frascati Synchrotron Radiation Collaboration1 GeV electronsynchrotron (built in 1958) at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati Italy 112 19631970Institute for Nuclear Studies-Electron Synchrotron (INS-ES) Tokyo Japan 0.7534.78 19651997Institute for Nuclear Studies-Synchrotron Orbital Radiation (INS-SOR) Tokyo Japan 0.517.4 19741997 DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron) DESY Germany 7.4 19671987 DORIS (Doppel-Ring-Speicher) DESY Germany 3.5 (5 in 1978)28919741993 DORIS III DESY Germany 528919932012 PETRA II DESY Germany 12230419952007 PETRA III DESY Germany 6.023042009 European X-ray Free Electron Laser (EuXFEL)Schenefeld, near DESY Germany 17.5 3400 2017 Tantalus at the Synchrotron Radiation Center University of Wisconsin US 0.249.3819681987 Synchrotron Radiation Center(SRC) University of Wisconsin US 112119872014Solidi Roma Synchrotron Radiation Facility Recycled 1GeV electronsynchrotron at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati Italy 11219721975 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) SPEAR storage ring at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory US 32341973 Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory US 830002007Anneau de Collisions d'Orsay (ACO) Orsay France 0.54 19731988 Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY US 6.07681979Progetto Utilizzazione Luce di Sincrotrone (PULS) recycled Adone storage ring with wiggler (built in 1968) at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati Italy 1.533.519801993 Synchrotron Radiation Source Daresbury Laboratory UK 29619812008 DCI storage ring – LURE (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique) Orsay France 1 19812006 National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) Brookhaven National Laboratory US 2.8170 19822014 Photon Factory (PF) at KEKTsukuba Japan 2.51871982 Super ACO-Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (LURE) Orsay France 0.8 19872006 ASTRID Aarhus University Denmark 0.584019912012 ASTRID 2 Aarhus University Denmark 0.5845.72013 National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) University of Science and Technology China, Hefei China 0.866.131991 Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF) Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China 2.5 1991 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) Grenoble France 684419922019 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility – Extremely Brilliant Source (ESRF-EBS) Grenoble France 68442020 Advanced Light Source (ALS) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory US 1.9196.81993 ELETTRA Trieste Italy 2-2.42601993 Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL US 7.0 1104 1995 Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source (SIBIR-1, SIBIR-2) Kurchatov Institute, Moscow Russia2.51241999 LNLS LNLS in Campinas, São Paulo Brazil 1.3793.219972019 SPring-8 RIKEN Japan 814361997 MAX-I MAX-lab Sweden 0.553019862015 MAX-II MAX-lab Sweden 1.59019972015 MAX-III MAX-lab Sweden 0.73620082015 MAX IV 1.5 GeV Storage Ring MAX IV Sweden 1.5962016 MAX IV 3 GeV Storage Ring MAX IV Sweden 35282016 BESSY II Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Berlin Germany 1.72401998 Indus 1 Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore India 0.4518.96 1999 DAFNE light Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati Italy 0.51321999 Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 2.5110.42000 Swiss Light Source Paul Scherrer Institute Switzerland 2.42882001 SwissFEL Paul Scherrer Institute Switzerland 2018 Canadian Light Source University of Saskatchewan Canada 2.91712004 (SLRI) Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand 1.281.4 2004 Indus 2 Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore India 2.5173 2005 Australian Synchrotron Melbourne Australia 32162006 SOLEIL Saint-Aubin, Essonne France 2.753542006 Diamond Light Source Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK 3561.62006 Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) Shanghai China 3.54322007 High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China 61360.42026 Taiwan Light Source National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park Taiwan 1.51201993 Taiwan Photon Source National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park Taiwan)3518.42015 (MLS) Berlin Germany0.6482008 Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II (BEPC II) Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China 3.72402008 ALBA Barcelona Synchrotron Park, Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona Spain 32702010 Sirius LNLS in Campinas, São Paulo Brazil 3518.22018 Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME)Al Balqa Jordan 2.51332016 Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF) Qazvin Iran 3489.6Under Design Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) LSU, Louisiana US 1.5 Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea3.0281.822011 CANDLE Yerevan Armenia proposedCentre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay (CLIO) Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (LCP), Orsay France 0.04 1991 DELTA Technical University of Dortmund Germany 1.5115.21999 Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC) Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Japan 0.7221997 Institute of Free Electron Laser (iFEL) Osaka University, Osaka Japan IR FEL Research Center (FELSUT) Tokyo University of Science Japan Medical Synchrotron Radiation Facility National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba Japan (AichiSR) Knowledge Hub Aichi Japan 1.2 72 2012 Photonics Research Institute Tsukuba Science City Japan SAGA Light Source (SAGA-LS) Tosu, Saga Japan 1.4 75.6 2006 Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility (UVSOR) National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki Japan 0.75 53.2 1983 VSX Light Source University of Tokyo Japan Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments (FELIX) Radboud University, Nijmegen Netherlands 0.015–0.060 1991 Dubna Electron Synchrotron (DELSY) JINR, Dubna Russia Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre (SSRC) Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk Russia 2 - 6 366 1973 Technical Storage Ring Complex (TNK)F.V Lukin Institute, Zelenograd, Moscow Russia 0.45 - 2.2 Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) National University of Singapore Singapore 0.7 10.8 2000 Solaris (synchrotron) Kraków Poland 1.5 96 2016 UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (CTST) University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California US Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL) Duke University, Durham, North Carolina US 0.2 - 1.2 107.46 1994 Jefferson Laboratory Free Electron Laser (Jlab) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia US W. M. Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee US The African Light Source (AfLS) Conceptual stage Synchrotron Radiation Center, Ritsumeikan University (Ritsumeikan SR Center: RSRC) Ritsumeikan University Japan 0.585 3.14 1996 NanoTerasu (JASRI, QST, PhoSIC) Sendai Japan 3 349 2024 (SKIF) Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Russia 3 476 2025
References
External links List from lightsources.org (includes links to individual light sources' websites) BioSync – a structural biologist's resource for high energy data collection facilities (includes links and instrument information for biological beamlines) FELs of Europe IR/THz FELs Worldwide - A table containing infrared and terahertz free electron lasers compiled by HZDR Light Source Facilities - List of light source facilities from LSU CAMD website (outdated) X-ray Data Booklet