The world's most powerful X-ray laser is located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the Bay Area, and it's about to become even more powerful. According to Mike Dunne, Director of the ...

Sony’s three-sentence press release confirmed similar death dates for its blank MiniDisc, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes. The ...

Attosecond science, honored with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, is transforming our understanding of how electrons move in ...

"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have uncovered how metastable states, induced by ultrafast laser pulses, transform ...

The electrons in the beam interact with the electrons bound to the metal atoms to create X-rays," he said. "At NIF, we use the high-power laser beam instead of an electron beam to make the X-rays ...

DAPA said the unit measures 9 meters by 3 meters by 3 meters (29.5 feet by 9.8 feet by 9.8 feet), and fires laser rays that are difficult if not impossible to detect before impact. “It is ...

What are X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers? X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are a revolutionary type of X-ray source that produce ultra-short, highly intense pulses of X-rays. Unlike conventional X-ray ...

But blasting high-energy cathode rays onto metal-coated samples in the vacuum chamber of a bulky and expensive instrument isn’t the only way to make useful images, as this home-brew laser ...

as he describes his adventures with an overly enthusiastic laser company sales person. Quanta Ray PRO350 with frequency doubling, emitting a 532 nm beam – Sales brochure image from Quanta Ray ...

Laser-based approaches promise a low-cost ... Similarly, brilliant X-rays and neutrons are useful for probing samples and aiding studies in fundamental chemistry, materials science and structural ...