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Beamline Optics Group
The Optics Group belongs to the SLS support groups and is involved in several beamlines. Our fields of expertise and activities are:
- beamline design
- generic R & D on synchrotron radiation instrumentation
- optical metrology - we operate the Metrology Laboratory to measure the properties and quality of X-ray optics
- we operate the Optics Test Beamline at the bending magnet X05DA for instrumentation R & D, in-house research and training purposes