FEL: a Light Touch of the Laser

A. K. Petrov

To move the world, Archimedes needed a point of support, or a fulcrum. In science, a new method of research often acts as a fulcrum to cause sudden and unexpected advances in allied sciences. The free-electron laser at the Siberian Center for Photochemical Research — a fruit of the scientific commonwealth created under «the sigma sign» — has every chance to become a textbook example in this sense…

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