List of synchrotron radiation facilities
This is a table of synchrotrons and storage rings used as synchrotron radiation sources, and free electron lasers.
| Facility name | Location | Country | Energy | Circumference | Commissioned for synchrotron radiation studies | Decommissioned |
| National Synchrotron Light Source | Brookhaven National Laboratory | US | 3 | 792 | 2015 | |
| Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland | US | 0.18 | 1961 | ||
| SURF II storage ring, Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland | US | 0.25 | 1974 | ||
| SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland | US | 0.416 | 5.27 | 2000 | |
| Frascati Synchrotron Radiation Collaboration | 1 GeV electronsynchrotron at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | Italy | 1 | 12 | 1963 | 1970 |
| Institute for Nuclear Studies-Synchrotron Orbital Radiation | Tokyo | Japan | 0.75 | 1965 | ||
| Storage ring of INS-SOR | Tokyo | Japan | 0.3 | 1974 | ||
| DESY | DESY | Germany | 7.4 | 1967 | 1987 | |
| DORIS | DESY | Germany | 3.5 | 289 | 1974 | 1993 |
| DORIS III | DESY | Germany | 5 | 289 | 1993 | 2012 |
| PETRA II | DESY | Germany | 12 | 2304 | 1995 | 2007 |
| PETRA III | DESY | Germany | 6.0 | 2304 | 2009 | |
| University of Wisconsin | US | 0.24 | 9.38 | 1968 | 1987 | |
| Synchrotron Radiation Center | University of Wisconsin | US | 1 | 121 | 1987 | 2014 |
| Solidi Roma Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Recycled 1GeV electronsynchrotron at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | Italy | 1 | 12 | 1972 | 1975 |
| Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource | SPEAR storage ring at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | US | 3 | 234 | 1973 | |
| Linac Coherent Light Source | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | US | 8 | 3000 | 2007 | |
| Anneau de Collisions d’Orsay | Orsay | France | 0.54 | 1973 | 1988 | |
| Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source | Cornell University | US | 5.5 | 768 | 1979 | |
| Progetto Utilizzazione Luce di Sincrotrone | recycled Adone storage ring with wiggler at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | Italy | 1.5 | 33.5 | 1980 | 1993 |
| Synchrotron Radiation Source | Daresbury Laboratory | UK | 2 | 96 | 1981 | 2008 |
| DCI storage ring – LURE | Orsay | France | 1 | 1981 | 2006 | |
| National Synchrotron Light Source | Brookhaven National Laboratory | US | 2.8 | 170 | 1982 | 2014 |
| Photon Factory at KEK | Tsukuba | Japan | 2.5 | 187 | 1982 | |
| Super ACO-Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique | Orsay | France | 0.8 | 1987 | 2006 | |
| ASTRID | Aarhus University | Denmark | 0.58 | 40 | 1991 | 2012 |
| ASTRID 2 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 0.58 | 45.7 | 2013 | |
| , Hefei | China | 0.8 | 66.13 | 1991 | ||
| Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | China | 2.5 | 1991 | |||
| European Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Grenoble | France | 6 | 844 | 1992 | 2019 |
| European Synchrotron Radiation Facility – Extremely Brilliant Source | Grenoble | France | 6 | 844 | Upgrade in progress | |
| Advanced Light Source | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | US | 1.9 | 196.8 | 1993 | |
| ELETTRA | Trieste | Italy | 2-2.4 | 260 | 1993 | |
| Advanced Photon Source | Argonne National Laboratory | US | 7.0 | 1104 | 1995 | |
| Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source | Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Russia | 2.5 | 124 | 1999 | |
| LNLS | CNPEM in Campinas, São Paulo | Brazil | 1.37 | 93.2 | 1997 | |
| SPring-8 | RIKEN | Japan | 8 | 1436 | 1997 | |
| MAX-I | MAX-lab | Sweden | 0.55 | 30 | 1986 | 2015 |
| MAX-II | MAX-lab | Sweden | 1.5 | 90 | 1997 | 2015 |
| MAX-III | MAX-lab | Sweden | 0.7 | 36 | 2008 | 2015 |
| MAX IV 1.5 GeV Storage Ring | MAX IV | Sweden | 1.5 | 96 | 2016 | |
| MAX IV 3 GeV Storage Ring | MAX IV | Sweden | 3 | 528 | 2016 | |
| BESSY II | Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Berlin | Germany | 1.7 | 240 | 1998 | |
| Indus 1 | Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore | India | 0.45 | 18.96 | 1999 | |
| DAFNE light | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati | Italy | 0.51 | 32 | 1999 | |
| ANKA | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | 2.5 | 110.4 | 2000 | |
| Swiss Light Source | Paul Scherrer Institute | Switzerland | 2.4 | 288 | 2001 | |
| SwissFEL | Paul Scherrer Institute | Switzerland | 2018 | |||
| Canadian Light Source | University of Saskatchewan | Canada | 2.9 | 147 | 2004 | |
| Nakhon Ratchasima | Thailand | 1.2 | 81.4 | 2004 | ||
| Indus 2 | Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore | India | 2.5 | 173 | 2005 | |
| Australian Synchrotron | Melbourne | Australia | 3 | 216 | 2006 | |
| SOLEIL | Saint-Aubin, Essonne | France | 2.75 | 354 | 2006 | |
| Diamond Light Source | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | UK | 3 | 561.6 | 2006 | |
| Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Shanghai | China | 3.5 | 432 | 2007 | |
| Taiwan Light Source | National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park | Taiwan | 1.5 | 120 | 1993 | |
| Taiwan Photon Source | National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park | Taiwan | 3 | 518.4 | 2015 | |
| Berlin | Germany | 0.6 | 48 | 2008 | ||
| Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II | Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | China | 3.7 | 240 | 2008 | |
| ALBA | Barcelona Synchrotron Park, Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona | Spain | 3 | 270 | 2010 | |
| Sirius | CNPEM in Campinas, São Paulo | Brazil | 3 | 518.2 | 2018 | |
| Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East | Al Balqa | Jordan | 2.5 | 133 | 2016 | |
| Qazvin | Iran | 3 | 489.6 | Under Design | ||
| Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices | LSU, Louisiana | US | 1.5 | |||
| Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea | 3.0 | 281.82 | 2011 | ||
| CANDLE | Yerevan | Armenia | proposed | |||
| Centre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay | Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Orsay | France | 0.04 | 1991 | ||
| DELTA | Dortmund University of Technology | Germany | 1.5 | 115.2 | 1999 | |
| Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center | Hiroshima University, Hiroshima | Japan | 0.7 | 22 | 1997 | |
| Institute of Free Electron Laser | Osaka University, Osaka | Japan | ||||
| IR FEL Research Center | Tokyo University of Science | Japan | ||||
| Medical Synchrotron Radiation Facility | National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba | Japan | ||||
| Nagoya University Small Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Nagoya University | Japan | ||||
| Photonics Research Institute | Tsukuba Science City | Japan | ||||
| Saga Light Source | Tosu, Saga | Japan | ||||
| Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility | National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki | Japan | ||||
| VSX Light Source | University of Tokyo | Japan | ||||
| Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments | FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics, Nieuwegein | Netherlands | ||||
| Dubna Electron Synchrotron | JINR, Dubna | Russia | ||||
| Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk | Russia | ||||
| Technical Storage Ring Complex | F.V Lukin Institute, Zelenograd, Moscow | Russia | ||||
| Singapore Synchrotron Light Source | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 0.7 | 10.8 | 2000 | |
| Solaris | Kraków | Poland | 1.5 | 96 | 2016 | |
| UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology | University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California | US | ||||
| Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory | Duke University, Durham, North Carolina | US | ||||
| Jefferson Laboratory Free Electron Laser | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia | US | ||||
| Stanford Picosecond FEL Center | Stanford University, Stanford, California | US | ||||
| W. M. Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee | US |