TU Vienna improves technology for generating X-ray laser pulses. 26?Jan?2023 Starting point is an ytterbium laser – rather than the conventional Ti-sapphire laser. Edgar Kaksis (left) und Paolo Carpeggiani. Intense, extremely short-wave X-ray pulses in the nanometer wavelength range are difficult to produce, but now a new, simpler method has been developed at TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria): the starting point is not a titanium-sapphire laser, which had mostly been ...