World’s biggest and powerful X-ray laser gun unveiled in Germany
September 2 , 2017 2639 days 1941 0
The world’s largest and powerful X-ray laser- European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) unveiled in Hamburg, Germany.
The XEFL is series of 3.4-kilometer tunnels up to 38 meters underground near the city of Hamburg.
It has the capacity to generate extremely intense laser flashes, at a rate of 27,000 per second. It can capture images of individual atoms in a few millionths of a billionth of a second.
It is employed in the study of photosynthesis process by which molecules capture light and turn it into energy during photosynthesis.
Also, scientists will attempt to recreate the conditions deep inside the sun and produce film-like sequences of viruses and cells.