Science news articles about 'free electron laser'

  • Free Electron Lasers and You: An LCLS Primer

    ... world's first hard X-ray free electron laser, pushing SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to ... photon science. Using SLAC's linac to drive a free electron laser, or FEL, the LCLS will generate X-rays ...
  • Tapering a Free-Electron Laser to Extract More Juice

    ... significantly improve the quantity and quality of light produced from a free-electron laser (FEL) - a source that provides pulses of light that can be 1,000 times shorter than those at ...
  • A novel X-ray source could be brightest in the world

    ... next generation light sources. "The free electron laser oscillator (X-FELO) we are proposing ... . Much of the research for x-ray free electron lasers has been concentrated on self-amplified spontaneous ...
  • A look into the nanoscale

    ... -fast timescale. Using femtosecond X-ray free electron laser (FEL) pulses, the team, led by ... scientist Henry Chapman, who is now at the Centre for Free Electron Laser Science, DESY, in Hamburg, Germany. ...
  • Nano sculptures in gold

    ... Institute for Molecular Sciences in Canada and by scientists working with the FELIX free electron laser at the FOM Institute in Rijnhuizen in the Netherlands. The researchers ingeniously combined an ...
  • The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet

    ... atomic motions, a length and time regime that promises to become accessible with advances in free-electron lasers," says Stefano Marchesini of the ALS, who led the research. "The technique we used is ...
  • Improving our ability to peek inside molecules

    ... in late 2013, the X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) will be the world's longest artificial light ... a second item with known features during the laser imaging. Known as a "reference object," it gives the ...
  • Checking people at airports -- with terahertz radiation

    ... structure of the electron packages in the storage rings for synchrotron radiation production and in free-electron lasers, for which the receivers of the German Electron Synchrotron DESY characterized ...
  • Programmed cell death contributes force to the movement of cells

    ... What he saw through the microscope, by laser-induced fluorescence, was that as a dying cell collapsed ... professor of physics and director of Duke's Free Electron Laser Lab. "The forces at work here ...
  • At the limits of the photoelectric effect

    ... research at the new large X-ray laser facilities of the world. The scientists actually wanted ... during their experiments at FLASH, the new free-electron laser (FEL) in Hamburg, which currently allows ...
  • Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

    ... Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, using energetic electrons from a linear accelerator to produce coherent x-rays with an instrument called a free electron laser (FEL). The x-rays will be delivered ...
  • X-ray free-electron lasers fire up

    California's project has the lead as its facility goes live, but Europe aims for its own rapid-fire device.
  • X-ray free-electron lasers fire up

    California's project has the lead as its facility goes live, but Europe aims for its own rapid-fire device.
  • New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

    ... Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, including graduate student David Bernstein, have made a promising discovery that a well-known synchrotron technique is applicable to free-electron lasers.

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