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

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

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with scientists from TAU Systems Inc., has brought the promise of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Smith-Purcell radiation arises when a charged particle, typically an electron, travels in close proximity to a periodic grating, thereby inducing electromagnetic emission that is inherently tunable ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...