Accelerator physics: Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
E-Mail IMAGE: The illustration visualizes how modulation of electron bunches via laser is used to produce microbunches which emit laserlight. view more Credit: Tsinghua University The most modern light sources for research are based on particle accelerators. These are large facilities in which electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light, and then emit light pulses of a special character. In storage-ring-based synchrotron radiation sources, the electron bunches travel in the ring for billions of revolutions, then generate a rapid succession of very bright light pulses in...
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