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First X-ray laser gets funding Plans by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to build a revolutionary new synchrotron X-ray source received a major boost this year thanks to $54 million in funding provided by Congress in the fiscal 2005 budget appropriation."The Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences—which funds synchrotron programs—has given the project very high priority and got our full request through Congress," said SLAC physicist John Galayda, director of the project, called the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). "I was euphoric. We've been treated very well, which is particularly notable in very tough budget times."
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