Abstract
Ultrafast optical-pump, x-ray diffraction probe experiments (see figure 1) are providing new ways to study transient processes in physics, chemistry, and biology, including the direct observation of the atomic motion by which many solid-state processes and chemical and biochemical reactions take place. Current table-top-terawatt femtosecond laser systems provide an attractive source of few-hundred femtosecond duration bursts of angstrom-scale x-ray radiation with fluxes comparable to standard rotating- anode sources.1
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