The HXRSS team in the Undulator Hall
August 2012 - With a thin sliver of diamond, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) into an even more precise tool for exploring the nanoworld. The improvements yield laser pulses focused to higher intensity in a much narrower band of X-ray wavelengths, and may enable experiments that have never before been possible.
In a process called “self-seeding,” the diamond filters the laser beam to a single X-ray color, which is then amplified. Like trading a hatchet for a scalpel, the advance will give researchers more control in studying and manipulating matter at the atomic level and will deliver sharper images of materials, molecules and chemical reactions.
Part of the SLAC team who worked on self-seeding is shown alongside the hardware in the LCLS Undulator Hall. They are (from left to right) John Amann, Henrik Loos, Jerry Hastings and Jim Welch.
Credit: Matt Beardsley / SLAC
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2012-08-13-worlds-most-powerf...
The HXRSS team in the Undulator Hall
August 2012 - With a thin sliver of diamond, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) into an even more precise tool for exploring the nanoworld. The improvements yield laser pulses focused to higher intensity in a much narrower band of X-ray wavelengths, and may enable experiments that have never before been possible.
In a process called “self-seeding,” the diamond filters the laser beam to a single X-ray color, which is then amplified. Like trading a hatchet for a scalpel, the advance will give researchers more control in studying and manipulating matter at the atomic level and will deliver sharper images of materials, molecules and chemical reactions.
Part of the SLAC team who worked on self-seeding is shown alongside the hardware in the LCLS Undulator Hall. They are (from left to right) John Amann, Henrik Loos, Jerry Hastings and Jim Welch.
Credit: Matt Beardsley / SLAC
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2012-08-13-worlds-most-powerf...