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The characteristics of the storage ring partly determine the performance of the entire facility.  The SOLEIL ring is extremely compact; however, it contains a very large part of the highest-performing light sources.  It was also designed to meet the needs of all types of users, as much by the choice of the machine’s nominal operating energy as by the two possible types of operation.

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The SOLEIL machine is made up 2 accelerators (the LINAC linear accelerator and the circular booster accelerator) and a storage ring, a polygon with a 354 meter perimeter.  It contains magnetic components (dipole and wave) that curve the trajectory of electrons.  At each curve, the electrons lose energy in the form of synchrotron light.

Third-generation synchrotrons such as SOLEIL use magnetic parts called “waves” that are inserted throughout the perimeter of the storage ring.  These are permanent groups of coils or magnets juxtaposed along the length of two “jaws” that cause the electrons to oscillate.  At each wave, packets of electrons emit a fine stroke of consistent light.

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