Submission + - Viewing the Ultra-fast (stanford.edu)
umarkalim writes: Staff Scientist Apurva Mehta says, "For 40 years at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), we have been taking very high-resolution photographs-photographs of atoms in molecules and crystals and of electronic structures. But now we want to make movies." He and his colleagues are developing a new "pump-probe" facility that promises to expand SSRL's capabilities and complement those of SLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.