{"id":3928530,"date":"2026-10-21T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/x-ray-free-electron-laser-sets-new-record-for-shortest-high-energy-pulses\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:00:12","slug":"x-ray-free-electron-laser-sets-new-record-for-shortest-high-energy-pulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/x-ray-free-electron-laser-sets-new-record-for-shortest-high-energy-pulses\/","title":{"rendered":"X-ray free-electron laser sets new record for shortest high-energy pulses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have measured the shortest high-energy X-ray pulses ever recorded at an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). The pulses had photon energies of about 9 kiloelectronvolts (keV) and clocked in at durations of 100 to 400 attoseconds\u2014mere billionths of a billionth of a second. The results are published in Nature Photonics.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-ray-free-electron-laser-shortest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have measured the shortest high-energy X-ray pulses ever recorded at an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). The pulses had photon energies of about 9 kiloelectronvolts (keV) and clocked in at durations of 100 to 400 attoseconds\u2014mere billionths of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}