Vanderbilt Free-Electron Laser Center for Biomedical and Materials Research

Norman H. Tolk; Charles A. Brau; Glenn S. Edwards; Giorgio Margaritondo; Jim T. McKinley

doi:10.1117/12.50587

1 December 1991 Vanderbilt Free-Electron Laser Center for Biomedical and Materials Research

Norman H. Tolk, Charles A. Brau, Glenn S. Edwards, Giorgio Margaritondo, Jim T. McKinley

Proceedings Volume 1552, Short-Wavelength Radiation Sources; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.50587
Event: San Diego, '91, 1991, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The newly commissioned Vanderbilt Free Electron Laser Center for Biomedical and Materials Research is a multidisciplinary users facility intended as an international resource. It provides extremely intense, continuously tunable, pulsed radiation in the mid-infrared (2-10 j.tm). Projects already underway include the linear and nonlinear interaction of laser radiation with optical materials, semiconductors, and mammalian tissue, the spectroscopy of species adsorbed on surfaces, measurement of vibrational energy transfer in DNA and RNA, the dynamics of proteins in cell membranes, the biomodulation of wound healing by lasers, image-guided stereotactic neurosurgery, and the use of monochromatic X-rays in medical imaging and therapy. The purpose of this article is to introduce the machine to the user community and to describe some of the new experimental opportunities that it makes possible. Details of several research projects are presented.

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Norman H. Tolk, Charles A. Brau, Glenn S. Edwards, Giorgio Margaritondo, and Jim T. McKinley "Vanderbilt Free-Electron Laser Center for Biomedical and Materials Research", Proc. SPIE 1552, Short-Wavelength Radiation Sources, (1 December 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.50587

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