In Palo Alto, california researchers have developed the most powerful X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.It is a billion times brighter than old version lasers.It uses Linac Coherent Light Source to experience how atoms and molecules move in living systems and allows to track chemical reactions as well.
Prof Mike Dunne said that "the LCLS fired extremely fast bursts of X-rays.He said let suppose a person is running the hundred metres and from first to second place different is 1/100th of a second.Now take 1/100th of a second, divide it a million times.Once again take one of those divisions and divide it another million times.That's how fast this burst of X-rays is."This genuinely is a revolution, also said Prof Dunne."
Researcher Dr Meng Liang was making a dish of the material found in the brains of people who have Parkinson's disease. She said that the new laser has the ability to change investigation in her field of study.
"To image these things in real time with the brightness and the fastness that LCLS has will be really special, so we can film them and see them instead of just looking at evidence for these kind of things," she said.
Prof Anders Nilsson who is working on atoms behaviour in a chemical reaction, said that the work would help chemists speed up and increase the efficiency of chemical production.
After the success of the LCLS, In Hamburg, Germany, Europe is building its own version and the Japanese government has also made a same kind of system as well.
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