New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in ...

Scientists are making X-ray free-electron lasers smaller and more affordable using plasma accelerator technology.

Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36592-z ...

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 ...

A research team led by Osaka University realized magnetic reconnection driven by electron dynamics in laser-produced plasmas and measured the pure electron outflows. Their findings will be applied ...

The ASU team set out to develop the first compact X-ray free electron laser, or CXFEL. A dramatically smaller and less expensive garage-sized instrument would promise to expand opportunities for ...

Vacuum ultraviolet coherent undulator radiation from attosecond electron bunches. Scientific Reports, 2021; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93640-8 ...

In a free electron laser, blobs of electrons are shot through a series of magnets, called an undulator, that make the electrons wiggle or spiral. With each complete cycle of wiggling or spiraling ...