Laser technology: source of coherent kiloelectronvolt X-rays. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Generating X-rays that have the properties of laser light has been a long-standing goal for experimental science. Here we describe the emission of highly collimated, spatially coherent X-rays, at a wavelength of about 1 nanometre and at photon energies extending to 1.3 kiloelectronvolts, from atoms that have been ionized by a 5-femtosecond laser pulse. This means that a laboratory source of laser-like, kiloelectronvolt X-rays, which will operate on timescales relevant to many chemical, biological and materials problems, is now within reach.

published proceedings

  • Nature

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Seres, J., Seres, E., Verhoef, A. J., Tempea, G., Streli, C., Wobrauschek, P., ... Krausz, F.

citation count

  • 257

complete list of authors

  • Seres, J||Seres, E||Verhoef, AJ||Tempea, G||Streli, C||Wobrauschek, P||Yakovlev, V||Scrinzi, A||Spielmann, C||Krausz, F

publication date

  • February 2005