• Question: Have you ever been involved with x rays as laser light work?

    Asked by frannyrules to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 2 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I’ve not.
      There are some lasers that can produce X-rays that are called Free Electron Lasers, but they are still very experimental and need a big laboratory to fit them in. There’s also the Diamond Light source in Oxfordshire that can produce X-Rays to probe the structure of all sorts of materials. There’s a nice website to explain what they do: http://insidediamond.org/

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I have worked with medical x-rays (in diagnostic radiology and in radiotherapy), but not as part of my laser work.

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