{"id":220167,"date":"2025-08-15T04:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/laser-advance-sets-the-stage-for-new-x-ray-science-possibilities"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:20:50","slug":"laser-advance-sets-the-stage-for-new-x-ray-science-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/laser-advance-sets-the-stage-for-new-x-ray-science-possibilities","title":{"rendered":"Laser advance sets the stage for new X-ray science possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-advance-sets-the-stage-for-new-x-ray-science-possibilities3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have generated a highly exotic type of light beam, called a Poincar\u00e9 beam, using the FERMI free-electron laser (FEL) facility in Italy, marking the first time such a beam has been produced with a FEL.<\/p>\n<p>The technique could improve how scientists study materials and drive advancements in high-performance technologies, such as next-generation computer chips. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-025-01737-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant step forward,\u201d said SLAC scientist and collaborator Erik Hemsing. \u201cPoincar\u00e9 beams allow us to probe materials in new ways, capturing complex behaviors in one pulse. It\u2019s exciting to think about what researchers will do with this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have generated a highly exotic type of light beam, called a Poincar\u00e9 beam, using the FERMI free-electron laser (FEL) facility in Italy, marking the first time such a beam has been produced with a FEL. The technique could improve how scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220167","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}