SLAC’s Upgraded X-Ray Laser Facility Produces First Light

Sunday, July 19, 2020 - 11:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Just over a decade ago in April 2009, the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) produced its first light at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) generated X-ray pulses a billion times brighter than anything that had come before. Since then, its performance has enabled fundamental new […]

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