A helical undulator was installed in the 0.75 GeV storage ring of the UVSOR facility of the Institute for Molecular Science. The undulator was designed to produce the fundamental of the circularly polarized undulator radiation in the energy range 2-43 eV, and the higher harmonics with elliptical polarization in the energy range up to 300 eV. Recently, the first spectrum from the undulator was observed. The performance of the undulator and the obtained spectrum are reported.
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