Just over a decade ago in April 2009, the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) produced its first light at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac ...

The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II - a major upgrade to the ...

After nearly a decade in development, the second iteration of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the DoE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is nearly ready to start throwing photons ...

How the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is transforming the world's longest linear accelerator into a novel X-ray laser. How the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is transforming the world s ...

A newly upgraded laser at the United States Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, or SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory produced its first X-rays with help from the ...

Scientists have achieved first light with an upgrade to one of the most powerful X-ray lasers the world has ever seen. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) images individual atoms and molecules by ...

Argonne reached another milestone in the design and construction of the Linac Coherent Light Source undulator system. Argonne reached another milestone in the design and construction of the Linac ...

The world's most powerful X-ray laser is about to get far more powerful. Since it was first fired up in 2009, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has helped scientists peer into the mysterious ...

Physicists have used advances in accelerator technology to develop a revolutionary machine-the Linac Coherent Light Source-for exploring the world on the smallest and fastest scales. Physicist Herman ...