  We have constructed a new laser-Compton-scattering facility, called the LEPS2
beamline, at the 8-GeV electron storage ring, SPring-8. This facility provides
a linearly polarized photon beam in a tagged energy range of 1.3--2.4 GeV.
Thanks to a small divergence of the low-emittance storage-ring electrons, the
tagged photon beam has a size (sigma) suppressed to about 4 mm even after it
travels about 130 m to the experimental building that is independent of the
storage ring building and contains large detector systems. This beamline is
designed to achieve a photon beam intensity higher than that of the first
laser-Compton-scattering beamline at SPring-8 by adopting the simultaneous
injection of up to four high-power laser beams and increasing a transmittance
for the long photon-beam path up to about 77%. The new beamline is under
operation for hadron photoproduction experiments.
