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LCLS-II is a transformative upgrade for energy science, qualitatively changing the way that X-ray imaging, scattering and spectroscopy can be used to study how natural and artificial systems function. The upgrade empowers LCLS to produce X-ray pulses that are 10,000 times brighter than before and that arrive up to a million times per second.

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Illustration of SLAC's cryoplant refrigerator.
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SLAC visiting scientist and consulting professor Claudio Pellegrini is honored for contributions to free-electron laser science.

Image - Claudio Pellegrini stands in the Linac Coherent Light Source Beam Transport Hall. The accelerated electron beam passes through here to the Undulator Hall, where electron bunches generate X-rays. (Michelle McCarron)
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SLAC and RadiaBeam Systems have teamed up to construct a “dechirper” that will allow scientists to adjust the “color spectrum” of X-ray pulses in...

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DOE-funded Program Benefits Companies, the Lab and Society

A copper acceleration cavity with an extremely thin coating of tungsten.
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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...

Four ePix100 prototype chips bonded in a test setup. (Brad Plummer/SLAC)
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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...

Cover art for "Frontiers of free-electron laser scien...
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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...
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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...

Photo - Amedeo Perazzo.
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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...

Photos - From left, Thomas Bligaard, Stefan Hoeche and Juhao Wu. (Credits: Matt Beardsley, Juhao Wu)
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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...

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)