Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
APEX: At the Forefront of What’s Needed for the Next Generation of Light Sources
15 Mar 2012, 18:43 UTC
An extraordinary “front end” for the next generation of light sources is taking shape at Berkeley Lab’s Beam Test Facility. APEX, an electron gun that will produce a continuous beam of tight electron bunches at the unprecedented repetition rate of a million bunches a second, is well on the way to becoming the must-have source for superconducting linear accelerators to power future free electron lasers.
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