New Implementation of an SX700 Undulator Beamline at the Advanced Light Source

A newly engineered implementation of a collimated SX700‐style beam line for soft x‐rays is described. This facility is operational at the Advanced Light Source and delivers high brightness undulator beams to a scanning zone plate microscope and to an array of end stations for x‐ray spectroscopic studies of wet surfaces. Switching between branches is motorized, servo‐steering systems maintain throughput and the monochromator works together with the elliptical undulator for a fully automated facility.