Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)

High-flux table-top source for femtosecond hard X-ray pulses

Researchers at the Max Born Institute developed a novel laser-driven X-ray source generating femtosecond copper K° pulses with unprecedented flux of 10^12 photons per second. This breakthrough enables investigating ultrafast structure changes in condensed matter by time-resolved X-ray scattering.