Present and future synchrotron radiation facilities in Japan

Abstract

I was very pleased to be invited by Takehiko Ishii to spend 4 months (September–December 1985) as a visiting scientist at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the University of Tokyo. This visit, co-sponsored by Kazuo Huke of the Photon Factory, gave me an excellent opportunity to find out first hand about the status and prospects for synchrotron radiation research in Japan. This article summarizes my observations and discussions during this visit. In an appendix an update on the present status of these facilities is presented, with particular emphasis on the Photon Factory, the largest and most capable facility. The interested reader is referred also to annual activity reports published by the SOR-Ring and Photon Factory labs and planned for 1986 by the UVSOR lab and also to other references listed at the end of this article.