The ASU team set out to develop the first compact X-ray free electron laser, or CXFEL. A dramatically smaller and less ...

Lasers for the win To solve this issue, SLAC researchers compressed billions of electrons into a length less than one micrometer using a laser-based shaping technique originally developed for X-ray ...

What are X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers? X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are a revolutionary type of X-ray source that produce ultra-short, highly intense pulses of X-rays. Unlike conventional X-ray ...

Dual-laser system and plasma channel generation ... They could also power advanced free-electron lasers, enabling scientists to study materials and biological processes at the atomic level.

The most powerful ultrashort electron beam ever created offers new possibilities for recreating cosmic conditions in ...

The hard X-ray FEL has come of age. A free-electron laser is not like other lasers. It works by forcing a beam of electrons, travelling at nearly the speed of light, to oscillate in a long ...

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