Injection of harmonics generated in gas in a free-electron laser providing intense and coherent extreme-ultraviolet light

Seeding a free-electron laser with pulses from a high-harmonic UV-light source increases its output intensity by three orders of magnitude. This approach has the potential to generate temporally coherent light at wavelengths down to the all-important ‘water window’, vital for studying biological samples.

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