image: This art shows data from the Young's double slit interference pattern that shows we are generating laserlike, directed, X-ray beams. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 8, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Popmintchev at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, CO, and colleagues was titled, “Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers.” view more
Credit: Tenio Popmintchev and Brad Baxley, JILA, University of Colorado