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Imagine if one could drop in at a laser light booth and come out svelte and blemish-free! Don’t count on doing it before your next high school reunion, but studies are already in the works using a free-electron laser to explore how light can target fat cells. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, and at the US Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., have shown that a laser can heat fatty tissue without damaging the skin covering it. Relying on the precise tuning of the free-electron laser, they found that light at...Read full article

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    Published: June 2006
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    free-electron laser
    A free-electron laser (FEL) is a type of laser that generates coherent, high-intensity electromagnetic radiation by using a beam of accelerated electrons as the lasing medium. Unlike traditional lasers that use atoms or molecules as the active medium, free-electron lasers exploit the unique properties of free electrons, allowing them to produce laser light across a wide range of wavelengths, including the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Key points...
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