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The quadruple magnet helps the electron beam maintain its precise shape before it enters the undulator magnet.
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LCLS construction site, with lights of San Francisco on the horizon.
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The Front End Enclosure that later housed diagnostic equipment for monitoring the x-ray beam.
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: Meter-thick concrete walls used in the construction to shield humans from x-rays.
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LCLS injector which provides a pulse for the firing of the injector gun.
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Together, the injector gun and the accelerator section combine to create x-ray laser light.
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Before x-rays can be generated, the LCLS uses "bunch compressors" to focus, or tighten, the electron beam.
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Artist's conception of device that could take holographic images of single molecules.
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A pulse of ultra-violet light (in red) from the main laser bounces off a mirror and onto the surface of the cathode gun. That produces a pulse of electrons (in blue).
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3-D Holographic images of single molecules will get produced using ultrafast pulses of very intense hard x-rays.
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An array of high-precision undulator magnets where x-ray beams are produced.
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Rendering of single undulator magnet, which is about 2 meters long and weighs one ton.
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Sample holder mounted with a gonometer similar to the devices which will be used at the LCLS.
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A look inside the Undulator Hall prior to installation of the undulator magnets.
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Only 12 of the 33 undulator magnets (silver-tone oblongs) were needed to create the first pulses of laser light
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Engineers measure and calibrate the LCLS undulator magnets.
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The main laser bay, which creates an initial pulse of ultraviolet light that gets converted to an electron beam by the injector gun housed 30 feet below.
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Example of laser setup experiment that LCLS can help conduct.
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The LCLS construction project extends SLAC's original two-mile Linac by an additional half mile, which includes x-ray transport tunnels and two experimental halls.
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Artists depiction of the electron beam and x-ray photon beam being separated. The electrons are discarded in the Beam Dump, and the x-ray pulse travels through to a suite of diagnostic equipment and focusing optics before entering the experimental areas.
