News tagged with coherent light

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Graphite enters different states of matter

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states of matter in about 40 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second).

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists build highly efficient 'no-waste' laser

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" laser that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

First atomic X-ray laser created

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

World's most powerful X-ray laser creates two-million-degree matter

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanometer-scale growth of cone cells tracked in living human eye

Humans see color thanks to cone cells, specialized light-sensing neurons located in the retina along the inner surface of the eyeball. The actual light-sensing section of these cells is called the outer segment, which is ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 15

Researchers find world's first x-ray laser produces most coherent x-ray radiation ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), first unveiled in 2009 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto California, has been undergoing testing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Tools of the trade: Diamonds are forever ... for focusing intense X-rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sorting millions of snapshots from the Linac Coherent Light Source

The great thing about SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source is that it churns out incredible volumes of data about things no one has ever seen before, such as snapshots of individual viruses.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Tools of the trade: New X-ray microscopy technique makes faster, sharper images

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new x-ray microscopy technique that allows scientists to make images 60 times faster than before has been developed by an Australian research team including Garth Williams, who is now an ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First X-ray lasing of SACLA

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a first beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms. This light was created using SACLA, a cutting-edge X-ray ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

SACLA X-ray free electron laser sets new record

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms, the shortest ever measured. This record-breaking light was created ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Viewing the ultra-fast at SSRL: First pump-probe experiments under way

(PhysOrg.com) -- X-rays have been used for more than a century to expose the invisible in many of its forms. When a family doctor studies an X-ray of a broken leg or an agent scans a carry-on bag at an airport ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new high-resolution method for imaging below the skin using a liquid lens

University of Rochester optics professor Jannick Rolland has developed an optical technology that provides unprecedented images under the skin's surface. The aim of the technology is to detect and examine ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Scientists build world's first anti-laser

More than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world's first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (44) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Launch of fourth LCLS instrument reveals crisp, fine molecular detail

The first set of user experiments with the Linac Coherent Light Source's newest instrument is under way, and about 40 researchers are working very long hours this week to decipher the structures of proteins ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0