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Ultrafast lasers catch electrons relaxing after brief excitement

14 September 2017

Pulses of light that last billionths of a billionth of a second have helped unravel a mystery inside solid objects and could help us build better X-ray lasers

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Ultrafast lasers catch electrons relaxing after brief excitement

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