These opportunities include using ultrafast X-ray sources to extract time - dependent structural information from proteins; and revolutionary possibilities created by X-ray
Free Electron Laser radiation for an entirely new regime of pre-damage serial femtosecond crystallography.
Not exact matches
«The data are highly relevant to studies using
free -
electron lasers, because they show in detail what happens when
radiation damage is produced.»
Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the
free -
electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to
radiation during mammography.
DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber
lasers and liquid
lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a
Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed
electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of
radiation.
Pulse duration of 45 femtoseconds for monochromatized harmonics is 300 times shorter than the typical pulse duration of synchrotron
radiation (15 picoseconds) and is comparable to the pulse length of a
free -
electron laser (FEL).
The ESR will participate in both time - resolved WAXS and diffraction studies at synchrotron
radiation sources and X-ray
free electron laser, be educated in the tools of X-ray scattering and X-ray diffraction analysis, and develop code for the interpretation of structural changes using both methods.
Europe hosts 13 synchrotron
radiation facilities and six
free electron laser facilities which all of them are founding members of LEAPS.
EUCALL is a network between leading large - scale user facilities for
free -
electron laser, synchrotron and optical
laser radiation and their users.
CALIPSOplus is an Integrating Activity for Advanced Communities in reply to the call INFRAIA -01-2016 (Material Sciences and Analytical facilities / Synchrotron
radiation sources and
Free Electron Lasers) in Horizon2020 the European Framework Program for Research and Innovation.