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FREE-ELECTRON LASERS

Compact design delivers hard X-rays

Nature Photonics volume 14, pages 715–716 (2020)Cite this article

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Beneath a forest in Villigen, Switzerland, a new compact free-electron laser facility is generating brilliant X-ray flashes.

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Fig. 1: Inside SwissFEL.

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