Topic: LCLS-II | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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The facility is now one step away from releasing an unprecedented stream of ultra-bright X-rays.

This is a graphic representation of electron bunches travelling through SLAC's linear accelerator.

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An upgrade to SLAC’s renowned Linac Coherent Light Source will allow it to deliver X-ray laser beams that are 10,000 times brighter with pulses that arrive up to a million times per second.

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After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.

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Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

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After more than a decade, LCLS was upgraded to generate even more powerful X-ray laser beams. With the LCLS-II upgrade, LCLS is around 10,000...

The creation of the world's brightest X-ray

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A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

A pattern of red and yellow dots surrounded by a ring of blue dots on a black background.

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The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.

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Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray...

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The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab. All the cryomodules were delivered...

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Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

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Dominique White takes a look at the last cryomodule for LCLS-II delivered from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

The facility is now one step away from releasing an unprecedented stream of ultra-bright X-rays.

An upgrade to SLAC’s renowned Linac Coherent Light Source will allow it to deliver X-ray laser beams that are 10,000 times brighter with pulses that arrive up to a million times per second.

After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.

Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

After more than a decade, LCLS was upgraded to generate even more powerful X-ray laser beams. With the LCLS-II upgrade, LCLS is around 10,000 times brighter and fires about 8,000 times faster. It generates up to one million pulses per...

A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and met the new dean of the Doerr School of Sustainability, among other matters.

When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.

Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray flash.

The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab. All the cryomodules were delivered via truck.

Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

Dominique White takes a look at the last cryomodule for LCLS-II delivered from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

LCLS-II

Electrons now moving through the superconducting accelerator that will power SLAC’s X-ray laser

LCLS-II

Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

The creation of the world's brightest X-ray laser

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Electron transfer in a molecular complex

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Cryomodule lifted from truck

Cryoplant team

Dominique White inspects a cryomodule delivered

Electrons now moving through the superconducting accelerator that will power SLAC’s X-ray laser

LCLS-II

Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

The creation of the world's brightest X-ray laser

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Electron transfer in a molecular complex

XLEAP illustration

Cryomodule lifted from truck

Cryoplant team

Dominique White inspects a cryomodule delivered