Design of a beamline for the SPring-8 long undulator source 1

The first beamline for a long X-ray undulator source is under construction at SPring-8 for development of coherence-related X-ray applications. The structure of the beamline, with four experimental hutches, is based on those of SPring-8 standard X-ray undulator beamlines. The station equipment prepared for the initial operation are a multi-axis precision diffractometer, a femto-second laser system and a multi-circle diffractometer mounting a 15 T super-conducting magnet. Commissioning of the beamline will start in October 2000. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.