Canadian Light Source
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The Canadian Light Source is Canada's national synchrotron light source facility, located on the grounds of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The CLS has a third-gener
The Canadian Light Source building from the air
The monochromator from the first CSRF beamline, now a museum piece at the CLS
The SAL LINAC, seen at the CLS in 2011
The CLS building under construction in June 2000
Synchrotron radiation
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Synchrotron radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when relativistic charged particles are subject to an acceleration perpendicular to their velocity. It is produced artificially in some t
Canadian Light Source
…a footprint the size of a Canadian football field. It opened in 2004 after a 30-year campaign by the Canadian scientific community to establish a synchrotron radiation facility in Canada. It has expanded both its complement of beamlines and its building in two phases since opening. As a national synchrotron facility…
Messier 87's astrophysical jet, HST image. The blue light from the jet emerging from the bright AGN core, towards the lower right, is due to synchrotron radiation.
The bluish glow from the central region of the Crab Nebula is due to synchrotron radiation.
Pictorial representation of the radiation emission process by a source moving around a Schwarzschild black hole in a de Sitter universe.