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Shanghai Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser Facility
View moreSXFEL is China's first X-ray free electron laser user facility and the first worldwide to cover the water window spectral range. The facility has a total length of 532 meters and currently features a 1.5 GeV electron linear accelerator, two undulator lines, two coherent X-ray beamlines and five experimental stations.
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Nov 28, 2023Scientists Develop Novel Approach for Single-shot Characterization of Ultrashort Free-electron Laser PulsesScientists at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute have proposed and validated a novel approach for single-shot characterization of ultrashort free-electron laser pulses based on self-referenced spectral interferometry. Their innovative approach offers a promising solution to the challenges of ultrafast scientific experiments.
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Jun 29, 2021Local Researchers Making 'Molecular Movies' with Ultrafast LasersLast Thursday, in the city's innovation highland of Zhangjiang, researchers fired an ultra-intense ray of light at testing samples to take X-ray photos. It took just 100 femtoseconds. Sounds like something in a science-fiction movie? The Shanghai-XFEL Beamline Project (SBP) has made it possible.
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May 18, 2021Major Progress of the Shanghai Soft X-ray Free-Electron LaserThe Shanghai Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser (SXFEL) is expected to open to users by the end of this year, greatly facilitating research into the nanoscale world. The SXFEL, the first X-ray free-electron laser user facility in China, is known as the fourth-generation light source. It can photograph and film molecules, providing a revolutionary research tool for physics, biology, chemistry and other research areas.
