LBNL Image Library -- Collection BERKELEY-LAB/RESEARCH-1991-PRESENT

Image File: 1993Summer_pg40_1stlight
Title: World's brightest synchrotron source of soft x-ray and ultraviolet radiation
Description: FIRST LIGHT - Like a rising sun, a phosphor painted target glowed bright orange when struck by a beam of x-rays from LBL's Advanced Light Source (ALS). The first light from what is now the world's brightest synchrotron source of soft x-ray and ultraviolet radiation, shined on October 4, 1993, at 11:34 p.m. The light was produced in a bending magnet beamline that has been developed to serve as an x-ray microprobe. With the brightness of the ALS' beams, this microprobe will have a spatial resolution of one micron and be able to detect and measure concentrations of elements as small as a millionth of a billionth of a gram.
Citation Caption: Like a rising sun, a phosphor painted target glowed bright orange when struck by a beam of x- rays from LBL's Advanced Light Source (ALS). The light was produced in a bending magnet beamline that has been developed to serve as an x-ray microprobe.
Date: October 4, 1993
Division: Advanced Light Source Center
Site: Berkeley
Publication: LBL News Magazine