Our ultrafast science factsheet gives an overview of the femtosecond world.

Read about how SLAC professor Siegfried Glenzer creates extreme conditions like those in the cores of planets and studies nuclear fusion.

Take a digital tour of the undulators and near experimental hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

PULSE scientist Amy Cordones-Hahn describes her work on chemical reactions that turn sunlight into useable energy.

Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

Learn about X-ray detectors from Gabriella Cabrini, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.

Ryan Coffee, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source, explains in a video interview.

Physicist Phil Bucksbaum gives a brief introduction to Femtosecond Week at SLAC.

SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.