For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a laser-plasma accelerator can reliably drive a free-electron laser ...

Scientists use a ghost laser beam to spot tiny flaws while keeping a free-electron laser stable for hours. For decades, ...

FELs require a bright and stable source of high-energy electron bunches, so today’s facilities are driven by large and ...

A newly published study in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams details a major milestone in accelerator physics: TAU Systems, working with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has ...

Free electron lasers (FELs) are paramount in a number of fields including atomic and molecular physics, material science as well as biology and medicine. The working principle of FEL is different from ...

Proof-of-concept experimental setup used to generate an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) free-electron laser (FEL) driven by a laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) electron beam. An intense laser pulse, ...

When laser flashes hit matter, electrons are knocked off their orbits around the atomic nuclei. This can generate extremely ...

Free-electron lasers (FELs) represent a transformative technology in the generation of coherent X-ray pulses that are both remarkably bright and ultrashort in duration. By utilising relativistic ...

The US Navy has contracted Boeing to work on a Free Electron Laser, which would provide ships with an ultra-precise weapon capable of striking targets with lethal force, causing minimal nearby damage.

Representation of domain walls within a ferromagnetic layered material. New research shows that when these materials are hit with a free electron laser, magnetic domain walls move much faster than ...

Ice-cold electron beams could pave the way to reducing X-ray free-electron lasers (X-FELs) to a fraction of their current size. Ice-cold electron beams simulated in research at the University of ...

Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser amplification at extreme ultraviolet ...