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Is SLAC producing light "light with a wavelength of 32nm"?
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[QUOTE="edguy99, post: 5494556, member: 114935"] I am looking for clarification of the wording used in a recent article about X-ray lasers. [URL]https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2016-06-06-echo-technique-developed-slac-could-make-x-ray-lasers-more-stable.aspx[/URL] [INDENT][I]... researchers have been trying to generate higher and higher harmonics, with the goal of reaching X-ray wavelengths of 10 nanometers or less. ... “We’ve now reached the infrared laser’s 75th harmonic, which allows us to produce microbunches able to generate light with a wavelength of 32 nanometers,” ... [ATTACH=full]188406[/ATTACH] [/I][/INDENT] I assume they mean they have bunched the electrons into 32 nanometer bunches, producing photons over a distance of 32 nanometers, but that the actual individual photons produced within the bunch probably have a wavelength much shorter (maybe as small as 0.1 nanometers or whatever). I find the use of the wording "[I]generate light with a wavelength of 32 nanometers" [/I]to be confusing if not misleading. [/QUOTE]
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