Free-Electron Lasers: Delivering brilliant science - Breakthroughs from the last 10 years

Free-electron lasers (FELs) enable us to probe and explore the details of the world and universe around us with unprecedented precision. For the past 15 years X-ray free-electron lasers have shed light on the smallest structural details and most fleeting of reactions, generating insights that continually push at the frontier of our knowledge and light up entirely new fields of science. This builds on over 40 years of free-electron laser experience in the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum which, alongside the more recently developed X-ray sources, continue to deliver cutting edge science today and into the future.