2025

A milestone for laser plasma acceleration

10 April 2025

A DESY team led by CFEL researcher Andreas Maier substantially improved the properties of a laser-plasma accelerated electron beam opening up new ... Conventional electron accelerators use radio waves which are directed into so-called resonator cavities. The radio waves transfer energy to the electrons as they fly past, increasing their velocity. ...

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A new wave in Ultrafast Magnetic Control

02 April 2025

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at CFEL have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast ... Magnetic fields are fundamental to controlling the magnetization of materials. Under static or slowly varying conditions, a material's magnetization aligns with the external field like a compass ...

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Advancing Quantum Materials: A New Approach to Controlling Electronic States

12 February 2025

A new frontier in understanding electron dynamics:
imaging with attosecond X-ray flashes

21 January 2025

A team of researchers from the University of Hamburg and collaborators has achieved a breakthrough by capturing images of individual nanoparticles ... Attosecond science, honored with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, is transforming our understanding of how electrons move in atoms, molecules, and solids. An attosecond—equivalent to a ...

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A High-Performance Optical Amplifier for Microdevices

08 January 2025

DESY researchers at CFEL have developed a millimeter-sized high-power amplifier with an output power of more than one watt on silicon-based optical ... High-power amplifiers are critical components in modern optical systems. “In order to be able to use them more widely, such systems should be very small, analogous to microelectronics - ...

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