Properties of Sources
Especially when artificially produced, synchrotron radiation is notable for its:
- High brightness and high intensity, many orders of magnitude more than with X-rays produced in conventional X-ray tubes
- High level of polarization (linear, elliptical or circular)
- High collimation, i.e. small angular divergence of the beam
- Low emittance, i.e. the product of source cross section and solid angle of emission is small
- Wide tunability in energy/wavelength by monochromatization (sub-electronvolt up to the megaelectronvolt range)
- High brilliance, exceeding other natural and artificial light sources by many orders of magnitude: 3rd generation sources typically have a brilliance larger than 1018 photons/s/mm2/mrad2/0.1%BW, where 0.1%BW denotes a bandwidth 10−3w centered around the frequency w.
- Pulsed light emission (pulse durations at or below one nanosecond, or a billionth of a second).
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