title: Brilliance--an overview.
abstract: One of the most important figures of merit for third-generation sources is the brilliance. An intuitive physical picture of the diffraction properties of synchrotron radiation is presented in this paper. The consequences of these diffraction properties on the design of third-generation light sources is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: MAXlab, Lund University, Box 118, S-221 O0 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eriksson