An overview of the PLS project

PLS (Pohang Light Source) is a synchrotron radiation facility currently under construction in Pohang, Korea. It consists of a 2 GeV full energy injector linac, a storage ring, and three initial beam lines. The PLS belongs to a third generation machine with an expected beam emittance of 12 nm rad. The commissioning of the PLS is scheduled to take place toward the late fall of 1994. The facility will be opened to users by mid-1995 and will eventually provide a high brightness source of radiation in a wide spectral region from bending magnets and insertion devices.<>