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Bright Coherent X-rays sans Synchrotron
Researchers have produced bright spatially-coherent X-rays from a tabletop source.
X-ray of the head of a damselfly, produced from a tabletop laser plasma interaction with a 30-fs exposure time.
A tabletop X-ray source is 1,000 times brighter than other laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator sources, opening the door to finer temporal and spatial resolution X-ray imaging. Stefan Kneip, Zulfikar Najmudin, and other researchers at Imperial College London, the University of Michigan, and Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon report in Nature Physics that they have produced bright spatially-coherent X-rays from a tabletop source (doi: 10.1038/NPHYS1789).
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