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Avalanche of emissions creates first atomic x-ray laser

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Ashley N. Paddock, [email protected]

The shortest, purest x-ray laser pulses ever achieved fulfill a 45-year-old prediction and could open the door to new materials, medicines and devices. Physicists from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) created the pulses, which were around 40 fs, by aiming the center’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at a capsule of neon gas, setting off an avalanche of x-ray emissions to create the first “atomic x-ray laser.” “The atomic x-ray laser, in potential pump probe settings, will allow us to study the dynamics of chemical processes, like charge transfer,...Read full article

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    Published: April 2012
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