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Lasers may aid missile defense, engine crack detection

Extreme nonlinear optical techniques have succeeded in upconverting visible laser light into X-rays, making a tabletop source of coherent soft X-rays possible. The interaction of atoms and molecules is both useful for making coherent X-rays which, in the future, may show previously undetectable cracks in jet turbine blades. (Courtesy photo/University of Colorado)

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