Alan Fry

Project director for SLAC’s Matter in Extreme Conditions Petawatt Upgrade (MEC-U)

(Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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In less than a decade, SLAC has built up an impressive array of dozens of laser systems – and a team of laser scientists...

Photo - Two laser specialists wearing goggles, adjust...

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The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC is the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser, or FEL, and one of the most complex light...

Ultrafast optical laser at the LCLS (Photo by Aubrie Pick.)