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Multicolour emission

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The X-ray free-electron laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US can now generate multicolour X-ray pulses with unprecedented brightness using the fresh-slice technique. The development opens the way to new forms of spectroscopy.

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Figure 1: Electron-beam manipulation with a dechirper.
Figure 2: Schematic layout for two-colour X-ray generation with the fresh-slice technique.

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  1. Chao Feng and Haixiao Deng are at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, 2019 Jialuo Road, Jiading, Shanghai 201800, China,

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Feng, C., Deng, H. Multicolour emission. Nature Photon 10, 695–696 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.204

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