1. Smart-tourist guide to a synchrotron light facility = Electromagnetic waves as a research tool -- A 'real' synchrotron source -- Controlling the source parameters? No problem! -- Bending magnets as synchrotron light sources -- Wigglers -- Polarization -- Coherence -- 2. The facility = Beamlines -- Vacuum systems -- Experimental chambers -- Becoming a synchrotron light user -- 3. Applications of synchrotron light = X-ray imaging -- Spectroscopy -- X-ray microscopy and spectromicroscopy -- Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) -- X-ray scattering and crystallography -- Microfabrication and other techniques -- 4. Free electron lasers (FELs) = Elementary description of lasers and FELs -- Applications of infrared FELs -- X-ray FEL's (or X-FELs) -- 5. Future directions = New sources -- New applications -- Novel management techniques -- A few final words

1. Synchrotron radiation sources