{"id":129103,"date":"2021-10-17T05:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-powerful-x-ray-laser-can-see-the-invisible-world"},"modified":"2021-10-17T05:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:22:43","slug":"this-powerful-x-ray-laser-can-see-the-invisible-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-powerful-x-ray-laser-can-see-the-invisible-world","title":{"rendered":"This Powerful X-Ray Laser Can See the Invisible World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X7CoLCTeqpE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The LCLS-II will be the world\u2019s brightest x-ray laser when it delivers \u201cfirst light\u201d in the early 2020\u2019s. With this superconducting accelerator online, scientists will be able to see the hidden world of atoms and molecules like never before.<br \/> \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a>.<br \/> \u00bb Watch more Focal Point | <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2s0cf7w\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2s0cf7w<\/a>.<br \/> \u00bb Visit our shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.seeker.com\">http:\/\/shop.seeker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cover image credit: Nathan Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The LCLS is short for the Linac Coherent Light Source. It\u2019s the world\u2019s first hard x-ray free electron laser. The LCLS uses a particle accelerator to fire extremely bright electrons to create fast pulses of hard x-rays, which is why the machine is called an x-ray laser.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its first light in 2,009 the Linac Coherent Light Source generated x-ray pulses a billion times brighter than anything around. The LCLS is a tool unlike anything before it. We\u2019re able to deliver these pulses of x-rays in one millionth of one billionth of a second.<\/p>\n<p>The LCLS maxes out at 120 pulses per second. So to see the ultra small world like never before, scientists and engineers are building something new. The LCLS-II is going to take the free electron laser field up another quantum leap. This will be unprecedented and will allow for a beam that\u2019s 8,000 times brighter than the LCLS beam and running at this million pulses per second.<\/p>\n<p>#laser #xray #technology #seeker #science #focalpoint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-powerful-x-ray-laser-can-see-the-invisible-world\">Continue reading \u201cThis Powerful X-Ray Laser Can See the Invisible World\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LCLS-II will be the world\u2019s brightest x-ray laser when it delivers \u201cfirst light\u201d in the early 2020\u2019s. With this superconducting accelerator online, scientists will be able to see the hidden world of atoms and molecules like never before. \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker. \u00bb Watch more Focal Point | https:\/\/bit.ly\/2s0cf7w. \u00bb Visit our shop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129103","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}