The demonstration of a laboratory-scale, fully coherent extreme-UV laser opens up a whole plethora of applications in ultrashort-wavelength imaging, microscopy and the probing of matter.
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Costello, J. From tiny seeds to coherent beams. Nature Photon 2, 67–68 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.285
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