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Atomic X-ray Laser Opens Door to Attosecond Imaging

On a black background, an irregular purple shape with one large oval mass and two smaller clumps on either side, with orange highlights in the center of each shape, though the highlight in the middle is much larger and has white in its center.

Crystallography for the Misfit Crystals

Fiber Lasers Poised to Advance Berkeley Lab’s Development of Practical Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Photo of Berkeley Lab scientist Tong Zhou working on lasers at a lab table.

Advisory Committee Releases Strategic Plan for U.S. Fusion, Plasma Program

Photo - This BELLA HTT laser system enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

A New Way to Measure Record-Setting Electron Beams

Photo - Sam Barber, left, a research scientist at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center, and Jeroen van Tilborg, a staff scientist at the BELLA Center, hold the active plasma lens, right, and dipole magnets used in an electron-beam diagnostic experiment. Combined, the magnets allowed measurements of electron-beam energy, with range and resolution comparable to what is achieved using the multi-ton magnet located behind them. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

LaserNetUS High-Power Laser Consortium, Including Berkeley Lab, Receives $18M From the U.S. DOE

Photo - Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center houses the BELLA petawatt laser, shown here, and a 100-terawatt-class laser. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

3 Awards Will Support Accelerator R&D for Medical Treatment, Miniaturization, and Machine Learning

Photo - Proton-beam therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. A Berkeley Lab researcher is working with PSI and Varian Medical Systems to develop a new system with improve beam performance. (Credit: Center for Proton Therapy/PSI)

SLAC’s Upgraded X-Ray Laser Facility Produces First Light

Photo - A worker inspects the soft X-ray undulator at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The hard X-ray undulator is visible at right. (Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Laser, Biosciences Researchers Combine Efforts to Study Viruses in Droplets

Image - A photo illustration showing magnified virus particles in droplets. (Credit: pxfuel.com)

Berkeley Lab-Built Electron Gun Fires Up for LCLS-II X-Ray Laser Project

LCLS-II First Beam

‘A Day in the Light’ Videos Highlight How Scientists Use Light in Experiments

Laser ‘Drill’ Sets a New World Record in Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration

Image - A snapshot of a plasma channel’s electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8-nanosecond laser pulse (red, orange, yellow). This plasma channel was used to guide femtoseconds-long “driver” laser pulses from the BELLA petawatt laser system, which generated plasma waves and accelerated electrons to 8 billion electron volts in just 20 centimeters. (Credit: Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab)