Lasers

In this lecture, SLAC’s Ryan Coffee explains how researchers are beginning to use pattern recognition and machine learning to study chemical reactions at the level of atoms and molecules with the LCLS X-ray laser.

From 'Hollow' Atoms to Structures Inside Living Cells, SLAC's Laser Continues to Explore Science at the Extremes

Zhirong Huang, Bill Fawley and Erik Hemsing Honored at Annual Free-electron Laser Conference

Experiment at SLAC's X-ray Laser Opens Door to Exploring Cell Interiors

Laser-timing Tool Works at the Speed of Electrons

SLAC Experiment Provides New Insight About How Electrons Move Across Molecules

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

Exploding Soccer Ball-shaped Molecules Will Help Biological Studies

SLAC Research Reveals Rapid DNA Changes that Act as Molecular Sunscreen

Even in their infancy, X-ray lasers such as SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source are notching a list of important discoveries, and a special issue of a scientific journal highlights their unique contributions to biological sciences.

SLAC scientists have found a new way to produce bright pulses of light from accelerated electrons that could shrink "light source" technology used around the world since the 1970s to examine details of atoms and chemical reactions.

Scientists at SLAC and Stanford show how high-temperature superconductivity emerges out of magnetism in an iron pnictide, a class of materials with great potential for making devices that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency.