Abstract:Free electron lasers represent a rare example of disruptive innovation in technology (Bower & Christensen, 1995). Such an innovation requires us to identify the ways in which the new technology differs significantly from the old and to decide how best to deploy that technology. Most importantly, we must consider what hitherto inaccessible scientific problems can now be successfully attacked, and reconsider what older problems can be better attacked. Free electron lasers had been developed at much longer wavele… Show more
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