The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), scheduled to be operational in the spring of 1993 as a U.S. Department of Energy national user facility, will be a next‐generation source of soft x‐ray and ultraviolet (XUV) synchrotron radiation. Undulators will provide the world’s brightest synchrotron radiation at photon energies from below 10 eV to above 2 keV; wiggler and bend‐magnet radiation will extend the spectral coverage with high fluxes above 10 keV. These capabilities will support an extensive research program in a broad spectrum of scientific and technological areas in which XUV radiation is used to study and manipulate matter in all its varied gaseous, liquid, and solid forms. The ALS will also serve those interested in developing the fabrication technology for microstructures and nanostructures, as well as for characterizing them.