Sentences with phrase «x-ray-free electron laser»

In recognition of his research contributions, he has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded the 2007 International Free - electron Laser Prize.

Electrons thus accelerated could be wiggled by magnets to create a so - called free - electron laser (FEL), which generates exceptionally bright and brief flashes of x-rays that can illuminate short - lived chemical and biological phenomena.

NPS programs include engineering, acoustics, nanomaterials, sensor development, robotics, power and propulsion studies, oceanography, meteorology, and space systems; there's even a program focused on free electron lasers.

A new free electron laser facility will probe aerosols in smog.

China is joining the elite club of countries that have equipped researchers with the potent sources of high - energy photons called free electron lasers (FELs).

«The data are highly relevant to studies using free - electron lasers, because they show in detail what happens when radiation damage is produced.»

«As far as we are aware, this is the highest level of ionisation that has ever been achieved using light,» explains the co-author Robin Santra from the research team, who is a leading DESY scientist at the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL).

Observing this ultra-fast dynamic process is highly significant to the analysis of complex molecules in so - called X-ray free - electron lasers (XFEL) such as the LCLS in California and the European XFEL, which is now going into service on the outskirts of Hamburg.

«Superradiance of an ensemble of nuclei excited by a free electron laser.»

A collaboration between researchers from KEK, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), RIKEN, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) used the SACLA X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility for a real time visualization of the birth of a molecule that occurs via photo - induced formation of a chemical bonds.

In the study published in Nature Physics, they were able to carefully follow, one x-ray at a time, the decay of nuclei in a perfect crystal after excitation with a flash of x-rays from the world's strongest pulsed source, the SACLA x-ray free electron laser in Harima, Japan.

The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL) choreographed a kind of molecular ballet in the X-ray beam.

However, getting strong pulses of x-rays is much harder than for low energy light, and required using the most modern sources, x-ray free electron lasers.

«Scientists have been keen on decoding the structure of the serotonin receptor for decades,» said co-author Cornelius Gati from Prof. Henry Chapman's group at the Hamburg Center for Free - Electron Laser Science CFEL, a cooperation of DESY, the University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Society.

The original publication «Quantum Imaging with incoherently scattered light from a free - electron laser» was published in Nature Physics.

It's far beyond what people originally thought free electron lasers were able to do,» Bostedt said.

Free electron laser's rapid - fire pulses will probe free - floating molecules in their natural habitat.

He is a scientist with BioXFEL (Biology with X-ray Free Electron Lasers), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center composed of eight U.S. research universities that is headquartered at UB.

The Free Electron Laser is still in the lab, though, and probably will not be ready until after 2020.

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.

As part of this initiative, the CAMERA team combined efforts with Ruslan Kurta, a physicist at the European XFEL (X-ray free electron laser) facility in Germany, to analyze angular correlations from the experimental data and use CAMERA's multi-tiered iterative phasing (M - TIP) algorithm to perform the first successful 3D virus reconstructions from experimental correlations.

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.

«Right now we are working on improving the time resolution with various experiments with XUV light, for instance for free electron lasers.

Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory have now bested a world record, coaxing the most energetic beam of light yet from a mirrorless free - electron laser.

Because a free electron laser is made out of an electron beam instead of one particular type of material, it is not a prisoner to a molecular structure.

Pogue is the program manager for Boeing's free electron laser (FEL) program, potentially the most ambitious laser weapons program since the Pentagon's controversial airborne laser.

Researchers simulated the environment found inside these planets by creating shock waves in plastic with an intense optical laser at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray free - electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

The team exposed a sample of crystals, known as Buckminsterfullerene or Buckyballs, to intense light emitted from the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser (XFEL), based at Stanford University in the United States.

By 2016, Boeing is scheduled to transfer its free electron laser technology from Jefferson Laboratory and other participating labs, in order to demonstrate a 100 - kilowatt prototype that is compatible with operation on a ship.

Here's an overview of how the Navy's free electron laser works.

George Neil, who leads the Jefferson Laboratory's free electron laser program, says some insiders question whether a free electron laser is even a laser, since its created via a different method than your typical laser.

«It's just like surfing, like catching a wave,» says Henry Freund, a long - time free electron laser scientist and vice president at Science Applications International Corporation.

Scientists hope that free - electron lasers will become the next - generation x-ray source for a range of research problemsfrom probing the structure of single proteins to studying so - called warm, dense matter.

Unlike conventional lasers, which use mirrors to amplify the light they create, free - electron lasers rely on a high - quality electron beam and an array of magnets.

The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme - ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities like free - electron lasers.

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).

This idyll has now been heavily shaken up by a team of physicists led by Matthias Kling, the leader of the Ultrafast Nanophotonics group in the Department of Physics at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, and various research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN - CNR) in Milan, the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock, the Max Born Institute (MBI), the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and the University of Hamburg.

This paper lays out a path for using free - electron lasers to get structures of proteins and other biomolecules without having to crystallize them at all.

A recent study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully used this technique at an X-ray free - electron laser for the first time with the element selenium as a marker.

The scientists used the free - electron laser LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S., and employed optics to focus each X-ray pulse to a similar size as one of the virus particles.

To break this limit in crystal size, an extremely bright X-ray beam was needed, which was obtained using a so - called free - electron laser (FEL), in which a beam of high - speed electrons is guided through a magnetic undulator causing them to emit laser - like X-ray pulses.

This opens up new opportunities in the study of protein structures, as the team headed by DESY's Leading Scientist Henry Chapman from the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science reports in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Fuchs and other team members used a new source of X-rays, an X-ray free - electron laser at the National Accelerator Laboratory in California, to conduct experiments.

This mirror structure may also find use in other systems, with potential applications that include focusing and imaging optics for synchrotron radiation X-rays and X-ray-free electron lasers.

Free - electron lasers are extremely versatile research tools because their intense, super short light flashes permit a closer look at new materials and even biological molecules; thus, allowing effects to be observed that had not been known previously.

Together with scientists from the University of Regensburg, physicist Martin Mittendorff and his colleagues from the HZDR managed to develop, build, and test a reliable detector to measure the time in the terahertz range at free - electron lasers.

A team working at the SACLA X-ray Free - Electron Laser in Japan has succeeded in generating ultra-bright, two - color X-ray laser pulses, for the first time in the hard X-ray region.

Every individual pulse coming from the Helmholtz - Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf's Free - Electron Laser (FEL) consists of countless light particles.

The SLAC Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser.

He led the team which conceived the first application of X-ray free - electron lasers (XFEL) to structural biology using protein nanocrystals and he pioneered femtosecond serial crystallography.