World's most powerful X-ray laser now boasts pulses that arrive up to a million times per second - Interesting Engineering

LCLS II is a particle accelerator that produces 1 million X-ray pulses per second. In 2009, it generated pulses 1 billion times brighter than ever before.

Researchers who need to look at impossibly small objects or incredibly fast phenomena are in luck. After a series of upgrades that took nine years, the world’s most powerful X-ray laser is back in bu… [+3166 chars]

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