Carbon and oxygen have a high absorption contrast. This is used to study biological and mineral samples via the “water window“, which has a spectral range between λ = 2.3 – 4.4 nm. Transmission X-ray ...

A laser pulse through a capillary filled with hydrogen plasma creates a wake that can accelerate an electron beam to a billion electron volts in just 3.3 centimeters. The same LOASIS accelerating ...

A new way to generate bright beams of coherent extreme UV radiation using a table-top setup has been developed by scientists. This could be used to produce high resolution images of tiny structures at ...

High harmonics: a NIR pulse (red) is focussed, and high harmonics are generated in a gas jet that is placed before or behind the NIR focus. The generated XUV light (violet) has a size and divergence ...

Researchers have successfully combined a table-top laser-based extreme high-order harmonic source for short-pulse soft-X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the water window with novel flatjet technology.

Laser plasma accelerators offer the potential to create powerful electron beams within a fraction of the space required by conventional accelerators – and at a fraction of the cost. Their promise for ...

There is keen interest in generating intense, coherent, soft-X-ray beams for scientific and measurement applications 1. Here, we report the demonstration of soft-X-ray lasers with essentially full ...

Laser beam incident on the structured droplet sets up plasma waves (blue pulses) that accelerates electrons (green solid spheres) to megaelectronvolt energies. In massive particle accelerators, ...

Building a laser shield on or around an optical table is easy with a variety of flexible options from the Kentek Table-Guard™ and Bench -Guard™ systems. A modular and highly flexible approach to ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have discovered a new way to generate bright beams of coherent extreme UV radiation using a table-top setup that could be used to ...