How to Use free-electron laser in a Sentence

free-electron laser

noun
  • If the next steps also work out, free-electron lasers may not stay confined to giant facilities for long.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Today's free-electron lasers employ the same basic principle as the ubitron.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The road to bringing free-electron lasers within reach This achievement marks an important turning point.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Over the past 15 years, scientists have built X-ray free-electron lasers, which instead of emitting beams of visible light emit X-rays.
    — Thomas Linker, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • These pulses were generated using a free-electron laser, allowing researchers to observe events at incredibly small timescales.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Today, researchers must apply to national synchrotron facilities or free-electron lasers for brief, highly competitive access to intense X-ray beams.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
  • For decades, free-electron lasers (FELs) have been among the most powerful tools in science—letting researchers watch atoms move, study chemical reactions in real time, and probe materials at the smallest scales.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • X-ray free-electron laser provided the measurements of the atomic vibrations known as phonons while the ARPES was able to measure the momentum and energy of electrons in iron selenide.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • XLight XLight is a private company headquartered in Palo Alto, California that is developing free-electron lasers to manufacture semiconductors.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The company xLight, which counts former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, seeks to develop free-electron lasers to improve one stage of chip production known as lithography, which uses light to print patterns onto silicon wafers.
    — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Even before the first EUV machines had been installed in fabs, researchers saw possibilities for EUV lithography using a powerful light source called a free-electron laser (FEL), which is generated by a particle accelerator.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024

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