The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) collaboration met in January to focus on beginning to build the world’s first X-ray free electron laser. More than 50 people from SLAC and collaborating ...

Researchers have announced an important step in the development of a next-gen technology for making X-ray free-electron laser pulses brighter and more stable: They used precisely aligned mirrors made ...

Engineers who have toiled on the world’s most powerful X-ray laser for over a decade have finally achieved first light with the instrument, meaning that science with the newly energized machine is ...

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 ...

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays, and ...

Nearly a million X-ray flashes per second: SLAC’s upgraded laser and next-gen sensors are filming atoms in action, unlocking secrets of quantum leaps, chemistry, and life itself. Image Credit: ...

Aside from shining a billion times brighter than prior technology, SLAC National Laboratory’s newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS-II) heralds trailblazing research capabilities that could ...

Physicists have heated gold to over 19,000 Kelvin, more than 14 times its melting point, without melting it, smashing the long-standing “entropy catastrophe” limit. Using an ultra-fast laser pulse at ...