| Facility name | Location | Country | Energy (GeV) | Circumference or length (m) | Commissioned for synchrotron radiation studies | Decommissioned | 
|---|
|  National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) |  Brookhaven National Laboratory  | US | 3 | 792 | 2015 |  | 
|  Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF) |  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 (built in 1958) at   Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati   | Italy | 1 | 12 | 1963 | 1970 | 
|  Institute for Nuclear Studies-Electron Synchrotron (INS-ES) | Tokyo | Japan | 0.75 | 34.78 | 1965 | 1997 | 
|  Institute for Nuclear Studies-Synchrotron Orbital Radiation (INS-SOR) | Tokyo | Japan | 0.5 | 17.4 | 1974 | 1997 | 
|  DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron)  |  DESY  | Germany | 7.4 |  | 1967 | 1987 | 
|  DORIS (Doppel-Ring-Speicher)  |  DESY  | Germany | 3.5 (5 in 1978) | 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 |  | 
|  European X-ray Free Electron Laser (EuXFEL) |  Schenefeld, near DESY  | Germany | 17.5 | 3400 | 2017 |  | 
|  Tantalus at the Synchrotron Radiation Center  |  University of Wisconsin  | US | 0.24 | 9.38 | 1968 | 1987 | 
|  Synchrotron Radiation Center(SRC) |  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 (SSRL) | SPEAR storage ring at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory  | US | 3 | 234 | 1973 |  | 
|  Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) |  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory  | US | 8 | 3000 | 2007 |  | 
|  Anneau de Collisions d'Orsay (ACO) |  Orsay  | France | 0.54 |  | 1973 | 1988 | 
|  Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) |  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | US | 6.0 | 768 | 1979 |  | 
|  Progetto Utilizzazione Luce di Sincrotrone (PULS) | recycled Adone storage ring with wiggler (built in 1968) 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 (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique) |  Orsay  | France | 1 |  | 1981 | 2006 | 
|  National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) |  Brookhaven National Laboratory  | US | 2.8 | 170 | 1982 | 2014 | 
|  Photon Factory (PF) at KEK  |  Tsukuba  | Japan | 2.5 | 187 | 1982 |  | 
| Super ACO-Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (LURE) |  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 |  | 
|  National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL)  |  University of Science and Technology China, Hefei  | China | 0.8 | 66.13 | 1991 |  | 
|  Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF)  |  Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | China | 2.5 |  | 1991 |  | 
|  European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) |  Grenoble  | France | 6 | 844 | 1992 | 2019 | 
|  European Synchrotron Radiation Facility – Extremely Brilliant Source (ESRF-EBS) |  Grenoble  | France | 6 | 844 | 2020 |  | 
|  Advanced Light Source (ALS) |  Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory  | US | 1.9 | 196.8 | 1993 |  | 
|  ELETTRA  |  Trieste  | Italy | 2-2.4 | 260 | 1993 |  | 
|  Advanced Photon Source (APS) |  Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL | US | 7.0 | 1104 | 1995 |  | 
|  Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source (SIBIR-1, SIBIR-2) |  Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Russia | 2.5 | 124 | 1999 |  | 
|  LNLS  |  LNLS in Campinas, São Paulo  | Brazil | 1.37 | 93.2 | 1997 | 2019 | 
|  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 |  | 
|  Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA)  |  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 | 171 | 2004 |  | 
|  Synchrotron Light Research Institute  [ th ] (SLRI) |  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 (SSRF) | Shanghai | China | 3.5 | 432 | 2007 |  | 
|  Taiwan Light Source  |  National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park  | R.O.C. (Taiwan) | 1.5 | 120 | 1993 |  | 
|  Taiwan Photon Source  |  National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park  | R.O.C (Taiwan) | 3 | 518.4 | 2015 |  | 
|  Metrology Light Source  [ de ] (MLS) |  Berlin  | Germany [1]  | 0.6 | 48 | 2008 |  | 
|  Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II (BEPC 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  |  LNLS in Campinas, São Paulo  | Brazil | 3 | 518.2 | 2018 |  | 
|  Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) |  Al Balqa  | Jordan | 2.5 | 133 | 2016 |  | 
|  Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF)  |  Qazvin  | Iran | 3 | 489.6 | Under Design |  | 
|  Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) |  LSU, Louisiana  | US | 1.5 |  |  |  | 
|  Pohang Light Source II  [ ko ] |  Pohang University of Science and Technology  | South Korea | 3.0 | 281.82 | 2011 |  | 
|  CANDLE  |  Yerevan  | Armenia |  |  | proposed |  | 
|  Centre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay (CLIO) |  Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (LCP), Orsay  | France | 0.04 |  | 1991 |  | 
| DELTA |  Technical University of Dortmund  | Germany | 1.5 | 115.2 | 1999 |  | 
|  Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC) |  Hiroshima University, Hiroshima  | Japan | 0.7 | 22 | 1997 |  | 
|  Institute of Free Electron Laser (iFEL) |  Osaka University, Osaka  | Japan |  |  |  |  | 
|  IR FEL Research Center (FELSUT) |  Tokyo University of Science  | Japan |  |  |  |  | 
|  Medical Synchrotron Radiation Facility  |  National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba  | Japan |  |  |  |  | 
|  Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center (AichiSR) |  Knowledge Hub Aichi  | Japan | 1.2 | 72 | 2012 |  | 
|  Photonics Research Institute  |  Tsukuba Science City  | Japan |  |  |  |  | 
|  Saga Light Source (SAGA-LS) |  Tosu, Saga  | Japan | 1.4 | 75.6 | 2006 |  | 
|  Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility (UVSOR) |  National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki  | Japan | 0.75 | 53.2 | 1983 |  | 
|  VSX Light Source  |  University of Tokyo  | Japan |  |  |  |  | 
|  Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments (FELIX) |  Radboud University, Nijmegen  | Netherlands | 0.015–0.060 |  | 1991 |  | 
|  Dubna Electron Synchrotron (DELSY) |  JINR, Dubna  | Russia |  |  |  |  | 
|  Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre (SSRC) |  Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk  | Russia | 2 - 6 [2]  | 366 [3]  | 1973 [2]  |  | 
|  Technical Storage Ring Complex (TNK)  |  F.V Lukin Institute, Zelenograd, Moscow  [4]  | Russia | 0.45 - 2.2 [4]  |  |  |  | 
|  Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) |  National University of Singapore  | Singapore | 0.7 | 10.8 | 2000 |  | 
|  Solaris (synchrotron)  |  Kraków  | Poland | 1.5 | 96 | 2016 |  | 
|  UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology (CTST) |  University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California  | US |  |  |  |  | 
|  Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL) |  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina  | US | 0.2 - 1.2 | 107.46 | 1994 |  | 
|  Jefferson Laboratory Free Electron Laser (Jlab) |  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia  | US |  |  |  |  | 
| W. M. Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center |  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee  | US |  |  |  |  | 
|  The African Light Source (AfLS)  |  |  |  |  | Conceptual stage |  | 
| Synchrotron Radiation Center, Ritsumeikan University (Ritsumeikan SR Center: RSRC) | Ritsumeikan University | Japan | 0.585 | 3.14 | 1996 |  | 
|  NanoTerasu (JASRI, QST, PhoSIC)  | Sendai | Japan | 3 | 349 | 2024 |  |