{"id":192050,"date":"2024-06-29T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-method-for-generating-monochromatic-light-in-storage-rings"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T19:22:29","slug":"new-method-for-generating-monochromatic-light-in-storage-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-method-for-generating-monochromatic-light-in-storage-rings","title":{"rendered":"New method for generating monochromatic light in storage rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-for-generating-monochromatic-light-in-storage-rings3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When ultrafast electrons are deflected, they emit light\u2014synchrotron radiation. This is used in so-called storage rings in which magnets force the particles onto a closed path. This light is longitudinally incoherent and consists of a broad spectrum of wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p>Its high brilliance makes it an excellent tool for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials research<\/a>. Monochromators can be used to pick out individual wavelengths from the spectrum, but this reduces the radiant power by many orders of magnitude to values of a few watts only.<\/p>\n<p>But what if a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/storage+ring\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">storage ring<\/a> were instead to deliver monochromatic, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/coherent+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">coherent light<\/a> with outputs of several kilowatts, analogous to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-power+laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-power laser<\/a>? Physicist Alexander Chao and his doctoral student Daniel Ratner found an answer to this challenge in 2010: if the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electron+bunches\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron bunches<\/a> orbiting in a storage ring become shorter than the wavelength of the light they emit, the emitted radiation becomes coherent and therefore millions of times more powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When ultrafast electrons are deflected, they emit light\u2014synchrotron radiation. This is used in so-called storage rings in which magnets force the particles onto a closed path. This light is longitudinally incoherent and consists of a broad spectrum of wavelengths. Its high brilliance makes it an excellent tool for materials research. Monochromators can be used to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192050","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}