The plasma accelerator project FLASHForward achieved an important milestone in January: for the first time, the facility's high-power laser accelerated electron bunches in a plasma cell. Later in the operational phase, the ...
General Physics
Feb 28, 2017
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An important milestone in the construction of the X-ray laser European XFEL has been reached: The 1.7-km long superconducting accelerator is installed in the tunnel. The linear accelerator will accelerate bunches of free ...
General Physics
Sep 29, 2016
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DESY has successfully concluded tests of the first section of the particle accelerator for the European X-ray free-electron laser, European XFEL. The so-called electron injector, which is 30 metres long, performed distinctly ...
General Physics
Jul 26, 2016
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Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a method that could open up new scientific avenues by making the light from powerful ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 7, 2016
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The shortest electron bunches ever produced have emerged in research by scientists at the University of Strathclyde.
General Physics
Oct 9, 2015
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(Phys.org) —The Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has teamed up with Santa Monica-based RadiaBeam Systems to develop a device known as a dechirper, which will provide a new way of adjusting the ...
General Physics
Dec 4, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A tool developed half a century ago for sorting subatomic particles has been redesigned to measure X-ray laser pulses at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).
General Physics
Jun 27, 2013
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X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) produce higher-power laser pulses over a broader range of energies compared with most other x-ray sources. Although the pulse durations currently available are enormously useful for the ...
General Physics
May 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Ultrafast high-resolution imaging in real time could be a reality with a new research discovery led by the University of Melbourne.
General Physics
Apr 18, 2013
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Wim Leemans of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division heads LOASIS, the Laser and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies, an oasis indeed for students pursuing graduate studies in laser plasma acceleration ...
General Physics
Oct 24, 2012
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