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First light from hard X-ray laser

Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 375–377 (2009)Cite this article

The demonstration of lasing at 1.5 Å at the LCLS facility in the US marks an important landmark for free electron lasers.

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Figure 1: The LCLS undulator magnets create intense X-ray laser light by wiggling a pulse of electrons travelling near the speed of light.

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McNeil, B. First light from hard X-ray laser. Nature Photon 3, 375–377 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.110

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