First Results from DESY's New Free-Electron Laser

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Building the free-electron laser. This so called undulator is an arrangement consisting of many magnets. It is used to produce laser light with short wavelenghts. Source: DESY
Building the free-electron laser. This so called undulator is an arrangement consisting of many magnets. It is used to produce laser light with short wavelenghts. Source: DESY

The first measuring period for external users at the new X-ray radiation source VUV-FEL at DESY in Hamburg (Germany) has been successfully concluded. Since its official startup in August 2005, a total of 14 research teams from ten countries have carried out first experiments using the facility’s intense laser beam.


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