{"id":125110,"date":"2021-07-18T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-paradox-of-a-free-electron-laser-without-the-laser-a-new-source-of-coherent-radiation"},"modified":"2021-07-18T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T18:22:54","slug":"the-paradox-of-a-free-electron-laser-without-the-laser-a-new-source-of-coherent-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-paradox-of-a-free-electron-laser-without-the-laser-a-new-source-of-coherent-radiation","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of a Free-Electron Laser Without the Laser: A New Source of Coherent Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-paradox-of-a-free-electron-laser-without-the-laser-a-new-source-of-coherent-radiation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way of producing coherent light in the ultra-violet spectral region, which points the way to developing brilliant table-top x-ray sources, has been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists have developed a type of ultra-short wavelength coherent light source that does not require laser action to produce coherence. Common electron-beam based light sources, known as fourth-generation light sources, are based on the free-electron laser (FEL), which uses an undulator to convert electron beam energy into X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>Coherent light sources are powerful tools that enable research in many areas of medicine, biology, material sciences, chemistry, and physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way of producing coherent light in the ultra-violet spectral region, which points the way to developing brilliant table-top x-ray sources, has been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde. The scientists have developed a type of ultra-short wavelength coherent light source that does not require laser action to produce coherence. Common [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}