News tagged with coherent light

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First X-ray laser's early success brings approval for next-phase facility

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted approval for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory -- home of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray laser -- to begin planning a second ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Light controls matter, matter controls x-rays

Like playing a game of scissors-paper-rock, a team of scientists led by Thornton E. (Ernie) Glover of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source (ALS), Linda Young of Argonne National Laboratory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

CU physicists use ultra-fast lasers to open doors to new technologies unheard of just years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Science Begins at the World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

(PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

First Test of New X-ray Laser Strips Neon Bare

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes a lot of energy to strip all ten electrons from an atom of neon. Doing it from the inside out, knocking away the most-closely-held, innermost electrons first, is an even rarer feat. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Collagen Measured in Soft Tissues

Coherent X-ray Diffraction patterns of collagen in soft tissues have been measured for the first time by Dr Felisa Berenguer at the London Centre for Nanotechnology with her colleagues.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Jet-propelled Imaging for an Ultrafast Light Source

(PhysOrg.com) -- John Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

John Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves 'First Light'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Shining light on diabetes-related blindness

A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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