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November 12, 2013
News Feature
Completing the Circuit: SLAC-designed Chips Empower X-ray Science
Scientists in SLAC's Integrated Circuits Department reach a new frontier in ultrafast X-ray science with intricately designed signal-processing chips that translate particles of light into bits of data.
Photo - Four ePix100 prototype chips bonded in a test setup. (Brad Plummer/SLAC)
September 9, 2013
News Feature
Journal's Special Issue Highlights New Frontier of X-ray Lasers
A special issue of a physics publication highlights the contributions of SLAC's X-ray laser and the few similar lasers around the globe in probing the interaction of light and matter at the scale of atoms and electrons.
Cover art for "Frontiers of free-electron laser scien...
July 23, 2013
News Feature
New Test Bed Probes the Origin of Pulses at LCLS
It all comes down to one tiny spot on a diamond-cut, highly pure copper plate.
Photo - SLAC's Sasha Gilevich, middle, works on laser...
June 12, 2013
News Feature
SLAC's X-ray Laser Explores Big Data Frontier
It's no surprise that the data systems for SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser have drawn heavily on the expertise of the particle physics community, where collecting and analyzing massive amounts of data are key to scientific success.
Photo - Amedeo Perazzo.
May 14, 2013
News Feature
3 SLAC Scientists Receive DOE 'Early Career' Grants
Three SLAC scientists will receive Early Career Research Program grants from the U.S. Department of Energy for research to boost the peak power of X-ray laser pulses, model catalytic chemical reactions and build better simulations of particle collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Photos - From left, Thomas Bligaard, Stefan Hoeche and Juhao Wu. (Credits: Matt Beardsley, Juhao Wu)
March 12, 2013
News Feature
'Beam Sharing': Two Experiments with One X-ray Laser
Blue-glowing diamond crystals hold promise for expanding the research capacity of SLAC's X-ray laser by divvying up its pulses for use in separate, simultaneous experiments.
Image - A superthin diamond glows blue during a beam-sharing experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. (Credit: Diling Zhu, SLAC)

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