Tag - X-Ray

Silver Foam and High-Power Lasers Create the World’s Brightest X-Ray

An x-ray detector at the National Ignition Facility was used to measure the energy spectrum and intensity of x-ray bursts created in the experimentsLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryA groundbreaking innovation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has combined high-power lasers with an ultralight silver metal foam to create the brightest X-ray source ever recorded, boasting...